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Question: why is Taiwan okay with being involved in this bill? It seems strange since this bill is so much more beneficial to China than to Taiwan, and since if

by mLuby 7y ago

Question: why is Taiwan okay with being involved in this bill? It seems strange since this bill is so much more beneficial to China than to Taiwan, and since if/when Taiwan returns to the fold it will likely be subjected to these same tactics. From the BBC: >The [bill] came after a 19-year-old Hong Kong man allegedly murdered his 20-year-old pregnant girlfriend while they were holidaying in Taiwan together in February last year. The man fled to Hong Kong and could not be extradited to Taiwan because the two do not have an extradition treaty. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48615161 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48615161

JumpCrisscross 7y ago
> why is Taiwan okay with being involved in this bill? Taiwan supports the protesters [1]. Beijing threw Taiwan into the bill as a loose justification. [1] https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-expresses-support-for-hong-kong-extradition-bill-protests https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-expresses...
GuiA 7y ago
Taiwan is not okay with the bill. From the article you linked: ”Taiwanese Prime Minister Tsai Ing-wen tweeted that her nation supported the protesters' "demands for freedom".”
- adriantam 7y ago
  wow! "Prime minister" in order to avoid the fact that she is President.
jubwub 7y ago
Nice trolling. I see the pro prc upvoters have kept you upvoted while he downvoted the other dude with the legit answer
- dang 7y ago
  Actually I only just looked in on this thread. Whatever you saw was users, not mods. Pro-PRC? Have a look at the hostile media effect: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=%22hostile%20media%20effect%22 https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... Also https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hong%20kong%22%20points%3E30&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hong%20kong%22%20points%3E3...
  - jubwub 7y ago
    Links are legit. Updated. Didn’t mean to be rude
- mLuby 7y ago
  It was a legitimate question not intended as trolling. The other replies gave exactly the kind of information I was hoping for to clear up my confusion.

by mLuby 7y ago

JumpCrisscross 7y ago

> why is Taiwan okay with being involved in this bill? Taiwan supports the protesters [1]. Beijing threw Taiwan into the bill as a loose justification. [1] https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-expresses-support-for-hong-kong-extradition-bill-protests https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-expresses...

GuiA 7y ago

Taiwan is not okay with the bill. From the article you linked: ”Taiwanese Prime Minister Tsai Ing-wen tweeted that her nation supported the protesters' "demands for freedom".”

adriantam 7y ago
wow! "Prime minister" in order to avoid the fact that she is President.

jubwub 7y ago

Nice trolling. I see the pro prc upvoters have kept you upvoted while he downvoted the other dude with the legit answer

dang 7y ago
Actually I only just looked in on this thread. Whatever you saw was users, not mods. Pro-PRC? Have a look at the hostile media effect: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=%22hostile%20media%20effect%22 https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... Also https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hong%20kong%22%20points%3E30&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hong%20kong%22%20points%3E3...
- jubwub 7y ago
  Links are legit. Updated. Didn’t mean to be rude
mLuby 7y ago
It was a legitimate question not intended as trolling. The other replies gave exactly the kind of information I was hoping for to clear up my confusion.