China has 64 million empty apartments. Why don't they fill some of them with Syrian refugees?

[KamaAina]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027133023

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. I doubt that Syrians want to go to China

[Human101948]

2. Can they work for 30 cents an hour?

If so they can steal jobs from Chinese workers.

[yeoman6987]

3. I think Syrians would go to china if allowed

It's better the Syria. What about Japan and Korea? Very quiet. Austrailia? Not a word. Thank goodness the United States is doing their part.

[KamaAina]

4. We are? How many have we taken so far?

[atreides1]

5. Not many!

"The United States has admitted 524 Syrians since 2011. We’re likely to admit 1,000 to 2,000 Syrian refugees for permanent resettlement in Fiscal Year 2015 and a somewhat higher number, though still in the low thousands, in Fiscal Year 2016," spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters on Friday."



http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/us-expects-quadruple-number-syrian-refugees-brought-here

[yeoman6987]

7. 68k so far. I am sure it will be over a couple million by the time it's over

[former9thward]

9. The U.S. will take in a few thousand.

That is all.

[nationalize the fed]

6. How many has Saudi Arabia accepted?

Where they drag women into the streets and cut their heads off.

The Saudi Arabia that buys lots of US War gear. The Saudi Arabia that sells a whole lot of oil to the US. That Saudi Arabia.

Edit: Here's a helpful article:

Why the rich Gulf states are saying no to Syria’s refugees
Sep 9, 2015

THESE countries boast an embarrassment of riches.

But as European governments face global scrutiny over their struggle to accommodate a mass exodus of refugees from war-torn Syria, what are the rich Gulf nations doing to help?

Absolutely nothing.

Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain have offered zero resettlement places to Syrian refugees, according to new data from Amnesty International...
http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/why-the-rich-gulf-states-are-saying-no-to-syrias-refugees/story-fn5tas5k-1227518333430

[smirkymonkey]

10. This makes me absolutely sick. They are doing nothing to help their

own neighbors for god's sake! They are extremely wealthy countries and their is no excuse!

[AngryAmish]

11. They have different mores than what is common in the West.

In general if they are not in the family or the tribe, you are the Other. Even if a co-religionist. But if you don't have the same faith? Koran tells you they should be your slave.

Nice way to live, no?

[smirkymonkey]

13. But they are not part of most European "tribes" either, yet we take them in.

Don't they have any compassion?

[AngryAmish]

15. The concept of nation, or universal justice, is a western thing

A result of an accidental 1600 year experiment in outbreeding in the west.

Most folks in the middle east marry their cousin. It makes sense to keep family wealth in the family.

[WinkyDink]

31. Are you ca-razy?! The ME has done nothing BUT fight over nationhood!

[Cal33]

33. If the Republicans should win the presidency in 2016, you can be sure we will not be

taking in any refugees -- Syrian or otherwise. American Corporate businessmen have
no compassion either. It is a characteristic of sociopaths not to have compassion for
anyone but themselves.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=The+world+is+ruled+by+sociopaths

[hack89]

17. They have such small populations

they are scared of being overrun.

[smirkymonkey]

20. And Europeans don't?

Why are we making excuses for them. If nothing else, they should at least be using their obscene wealth to help the refugees, even if they don't want to take them in. Europe is stretched to the limit.

[DetlefK]

8. Because those Syrians need a job in the long term.

As the article layed out, in practical terms the whole chinese economy is ruled by the communist party. And as the communist party is has an almost-monopoly on jobs, it is also responsible for providing jobs to provide unrest. Those Syrians need food&shelter in the short term, money in the medium term and jobs in the long term. China has a hard time creating enough jobs for the Chinese. (China is currently pillaging Africa to scratch the ressources together they need to expand their economy more and more.) The Syrians would only magnify that problem.

Plus, behind the scenes China has a problem with racism. The Han-Chinese are taking over everything, pushing other chinese people out of positions of power.

Plus, China's culture is dominated by a doctrine of top-down-enforced harmony. (For about 2,500 years now...) Bringing in outsiders that are radically different would disrupt this harmony.

[AngryAmish]

12. Tell me about how the Han have a racism problem.

The entire point of the CCP is to make a Han state, with Han virtues. 250 years of foreign dynasty ( not to mention the Mongols) tend to make a race/people look for purity. 700 yeats of foreign invasion in Spain spawned the Inquisition. And who expected that?

Anyway, Han Chinese tend to be massive racists.

[EX500rider]

22. "And who expected that?"

[AngryAmish]

23. Aha! You got the joke!

[whatthehey]

34. I get the joke, but the truth is amusing too.

EVERYBODY expected the Spanish Inquisition because they had to give 30 days' written notice that they wanted to question you.

[davidn3600]

18. But many European countries dont have a surplus of jobs

Which European country has a millions of jobs unfilled?

Most of these refugees are going to remain unemployed for quite some time.

[DetlefK]

24. But the european economy is more flexible than the chinese economy.

Where there is profit to be made, there will be jobs. China actually prevents the creation of jobs that would lie beyond the control of the communist party: China vehemently prevents corporations from growing so big that they could lever some measure of influence over the chinese economy. Job-growth in China isn't some natural process of filling an economic vacuum. It is a state-coordinated process with the goal of preventing social unrest.

[LeftyMom]

14. Have you noticed their economy is collapsing? nt

[hack89]

16. The Chinese would not tolerate them practicing their religion

there would be violence.

[KamaAina]

19. There are Muslims in China

mainly in Xinjiang in the northwest.

[hack89]

21. And they face harsh government discrimination and repression

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/china-bans-ramadan-fasting-muslim-region-150618070016245.html

http://www.dailysabah.com/asia/2015/04/26/uighurs-suffer-from-continuous-chinese-oppression

[oberliner]

25. Or Russia for that matter

I don't think they have offered to take in any such refugees.

[ileus]

26. Commies have laws they follow strictly.

[WinkyDink]

32. "Commies"? Russia today?

[B Calm]

27. I say send them to Israel, but Israel is NOT accepting ANY AT ALL!

[WinkyDink]

30. Hahahahahahaha!! Because China just loooooves Muslims!