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The New China Challenge Stems from Beijing’s Old Ambitions(nationalinterest.org)
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by hker 6y ago
Earlier Twitter labeled Trump’s more questionable tweets, instead of outright deleting them. I wonder if Twitter could do the same here. Although I disagree with this tweet of China embassy, I want it to be shown to the world for others to
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Venezuela's verification systems are interesting, giving me some hope that the counting or voting processes could be improved. > Dictators [...] can stay in power without lying about the vote count by, say, deciding what makes it o
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by hker 6y ago
> 3. It may actually benefit China, as it shifts from an export driven to a consumption driven economy to have a large population of idle old people spending money on the economy, it means that the government can grow the economy by dire
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by hker 6y ago
Announcing or implementing such policy is one thing, making sure the policy has the intended effect is another. Racial and cultural integration is not easy. Singapore could do this with its small size and hands-on approach (ethnic makeup of
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by hker 6y ago
> China's real threat is to any non-Han ethnic minority locked in the creepingly expansive orwellian nightmare of an empire that is gradually emerging. > Right now it's the Uighurs, and when the Dalai Lama bites it, and the
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China's authorities issue gag order about virus to doctors in Wuhan(english.kyodonews.net)
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Climate crisis making autumn leaves fall earlier, study finds(theguardian.com)
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China censors Canadian curriculums at international schools(theglobeandmail.com)
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Google removes Baidu apps after they were found collecting sensitive user data(scmp.com)
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by hker 6y ago
Not just with Australia, the question is whether China, or other members, will honour their obligations. Speaking of China: China joined WTO since 2001, promised to open up its financial and banking sectors to foreign competitions as condit
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This comes back to the article: we should not follow Chinese social credit system.
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> The government isn't targeting people by race. It's targeting people by culture and behavior. Are you saying that the Chinese government force abortion by culture and behavior [1], not by race? [1]: https://www.vic
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by hker 6y ago
Not only that. Not only non-Han Chinese face oppression (Uyghurs, Tibetans, Mongolians [1]), but lower class Han are also not well treated [2]. Point is, we should not judge the progress of China based on its most affluent class. Things are
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by hker 6y ago
> Simplified and traditional characters are in perfect correspondence right? No, there is no perfect correspondence between simplified and traditional Chinese. The simplified Chinese collapses important characters such as “after” and “ba
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by hker 6y ago
> China doesn't compromise on sovereignty issues, period. Except when it does, quietly accepting losing Vladivostok to Russia (Chinese [1] Google translate [2]). Vladivostok was lost during the same era Hong Kong was lost. [1] http
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by hker 6y ago
> From a simpletons perspective, I don't understand why we get to have a say of how a country reclaims its former territory. The handover of Hong Kong from Britain to PRC in 1997 is based on the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 198
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by hker 6y ago
Saying so is like saying that all laws are the same as a tool, they serve the same purpose, and there is no difference between felonies, misdemeanors, and infractions. Or, you are saying that even though the Magnitsky act does not entail im
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by hker 6y ago
Hong Kong will be paying an unrestricted amount as national security fee to central government (Chinese [1] Google translate [2]), and as an estimate, China is spending more on domestic security than military [3]--they perceive a greater th
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by hker 6y ago
> Lastly, China is for historical reasons extremely protective of its territorial integrity (because loss of land often presaged the demise of a dynasty and subsequent disarray, and the touchy "century of humiliation" during wh
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by hker 6y ago
Relevant reporting: Hong Kong security law: Police handed power to do warrantless searches, freeze assets, intercept comms, control internet https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/06/breaking-hong-kong-securit... Not
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Barcelona opera house reopens with performance to 2,292 plants(edition.cnn.com)
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by hker 6y ago
TL;DR: limiting freedom of expression in name of national security, without a just trial. Stretching a bit, we call it the freedom from fear (of unjust prosecution), which is the—arguably justified—distrust of the rule by law in China (no
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by hker 6y ago
There is a related discussion for migrating Hong Kong people in another thread right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23326670
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In this case, sanctioning Hong Kong is part of sanctioning China, because it hinders technology transfer (eg to Huawei) and finance transfer (Hong Kong was previously not affected by trade tariffs on China, and has a huge stock market). It
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by hker 6y ago
It remains to be seen what it means to the Sino–British Joint Declaration of 1984, which is behind the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China in 1997. See the related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=232
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by hker 6y ago
If the totalitarian government could survive a large scale joblessness or recession, comparable to the one US might be experiencing now. Democratic regime may survive bad economic times by transitioning of power if needed, but less so for a
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A news reporting [1] and video [2] of the incident. [1]: https://hongkongfp.com/2020/05/08/shocking-unlawful-illegiti... [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zxtYUFl5Hg
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The Britain signed the treaties with the Qing government (the last dynasty in China until 1912), and the bearer shares of the treaties were brought to Taiwan by the KMT government before 1950. So the issue is: who represents China? The gove
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by hker 6y ago
As an academic exercise of what if the Sino–British Joint Declaration of 1984 is revoked, one alternative possibility to for Hong Kong to join Taiwan (quoting my earlier comment): Note that Hong Kong was given to the Britain by three treati

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