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by hker 5y ago
If it were true, China would not have delayed its Anti-Sanctions Law in Hong Kong [1]. Hong Kong is huge in supporting the Finance of China. > But the Hong Kong government can only welcome the stock listing opportunity to reinforce Hong
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by hker 5y ago
US is prioritizing South China Sea and Taiwan Strait after its exit from Afghanistan. US sails ship through South China Sea days after China institutes new maritime ID rules [1] [1]: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08&
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by hker 5y ago
> In the early 1930s, the USSR survived by shipping so much grain out of Ukraine that by 1933, 25% of the Ukrainian populace had died. Dictatorships and authoritarian regimes always abuse people one way or another to survive. During the
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by hker 5y ago
> They can get away with almost anything. Not if factories move to Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Bangladesh, India, etc., as the current trend continues.
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by hker 5y ago
related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28453256
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by hker 5y ago
Don’t forget to check out past winners. The winning entry for 2020 is… perhaps NSFW. https://www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/comedy-widlife-2...
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by hker 5y ago
> It's absolutely imperative that the US Govt, and the govts of all democracies, recognize and combat this, and take active measures to protect their Chinese citizens. Agree. > Democratic governments should probably also look int
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Design 'anti-sex' beds for athletes of the olympic games(chron.com)
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics composer apologizes for bullying disabled classmates(nbcnews.com)
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‘Mismanaged to death’: Mexico opens up sole vaquita habitat to fishing(news.mongabay.com)
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Inflation? Not in Japan. and That Could Hold a Warning for the U.S.(nytimes.com)
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by hker 5y ago
If history is any indication... reminds me of the speech of Deng Xiaoping at the U.N. General Assembly in 1974 [1]. "If one day China should change her colour and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the w
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by hker 5y ago
Data suggests otherwise. Majority of Hong Kong people [1] or Taiwan people [2] do not consider themselves to be Chinese. [1]: https://www.pori.hk/pop-poll/ethnic-identity-en/q001.html?la... [2]: https:/&#x
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by hker 5y ago
> It was late. > PRC scholars warned new HK generations would culturally drift 10+ years ago. Data suggests that the drift of HK generations [1] in the past two decades are swayed by what happened in China: Hong Kong people identified
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by hker 6y ago
> In 1967 under the British, dozens of Chinese protesting against British rule and for representation were killed in Hong Kong. This comment is context free: missing critical historical contexts (if not outright misleading). 1967 was at
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by hker 6y ago
For those out of the loop: Hong Kong Protesters Love Pepe the Frog. No, They’re Not Alt-Right. [1] I think the protest is going underground after the Security Law and recent crackdown. So it is harder to see symbols of protests. [1]: https
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by hker 6y ago
The phrase "All major democratic reforms for Hong Kong were dropped by British Cabinet decision." does not lead to any credible source, only some mentions on a small number of websites or Reddit. Compare the Google searches: - &qu
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by hker 6y ago
Tangential: does anyone know of any studies on: * the status of “unofficial” languages such as Cantonese, Shanghainese, Hakka, Hokkien, Minnan, or others, inside China, Taiwan, or overseas; * their usage trends over (say) the last decade. S
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I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine(protocol.com)
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by hker 6y ago
(Disclaimer: not living in Taiwan.) My impression is that Taiwan embraces multi-culture and multi-race better than China—though both are dominantly Han. As for Black experience in Taiwan, especially Taipei, you may be interested in [1]. [1]
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by hker 6y ago
I agree that: * each country has their own history and trajectory, including China, its neighbors (Japan, Taiwan, etc.), or others. * China has much to gain from changing the world order. But, I speculate that: * a transition of power from
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by hker 6y ago
I agree that: - the Chinese culture will never be the same as the US, and - Chinese opinion is not a single blob, but I think “oriental” countries like Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan show that they could be persuaded (let’s not use “educate
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by hker 6y ago
It is more than “language barrier” or “diverse opinions” in China: the government actively censors information and sways public opinion [1]. Regardless of your political stance (whether you think Dalai Lama is good or evil, Tiananmen Square
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by hker 6y ago
> It is unlikely US will lose power soon. But it is also unlikely US will hold power forever and ever. Since US may lose power to an authoritarian regime four times its population, US should act sooner or later while it can do so effecti
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by hker 6y ago
> They just have a better marketing / PR department about it. The fact that opposing views could be brought into public discourse, not silenced or censored in QQ or Weibo, makes a huge difference . It is not just marketing or PR .
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by hker 6y ago
Some news reporting on the scale of the detention camps in Xinjiang, with satellite images [1], an account of a survivor [2], and how the 1 million number was estimated [3]. I think it is nowhere near zero evidence. [1]: https://
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by hker 6y ago
> How do China's ambitions stack up with their upcoming demographic changes? Personal take: As long as Xi is in power, China’s ambitions are unlikely to scale back (at least on the surface), for otherwise it would be his failures. F
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by hker 6y ago
> the fertility rates had already started plummeting for the 15 years prior to it being announced Another article supporting this statement, on Chinese demography [1][2]. You may find it interesting. [1]: https://noahpinion.su
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by hker 6y ago
When comparing the outcome of covid, I think we need to consider more than the response of the government. The civil society played a key role, too. Regarding covid, Taiwan did very well, despite being very close to China. - The government
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by hker 6y ago
This article sums it up pretty well, although a bit too short: The New China Challenge Stems from Beijing’s Old Ambitions https://nationalinterest.org/feature/new-china-challenge-ste... China has made it a goal to subd

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