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Taiwan coffee chain 85°C kowtows to China after Chinese netzens threaten boycott
- nailer 8y agoIt's worth keeping in mind that PRC seems to have large astro-turf farms. You can see it here on HN: comments about PRC and Taiwan on HN get modded up or down in the usual first 1 or 2 hours of a post, then PRC gets involved and suddenly anything pro democracy, supporting Hong Kong, or even mentioning the official name of Taiwan is suddenly moderated to death. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people initially angry about 85 degrees serving the Taiwanese PM are paid to be so, before a lot of real people get in on the outrage machine.
- wrong_variable 8y agoIt seems like naked astroturfing. If Trump wasn't president, ( someone like bernie ). I hope a coalition of democratic countries (Australia, EU, Japan, Vietnam and India ) sent a carrier group to Taiwan and make China sign some sort of agreement to keep the Taiwanese alone - a country doesn't deserve this type of humiliation.