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by majia 7y ago
Are you implying snowden is a woman/African American/lgbt or an advocate for these groups?
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by majia 7y ago
Not sure how diversity is related to the potential conflict of interest of NSA work...
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by majia 7y ago
1. Contact information should not be just an email address. It’s better to have email, phone and any locally popular communication channels. In countries such as China, people don’t use email as often as apps like wechat. Desk clerks are le
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by majia 7y ago
While direct wealth redistribution isn't significant, huge spending on infrastructure on roads, railways, telecoms and education certainly helped. Without these infrastructure, people won't be able to build factories and work on h
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by majia 7y ago
I think the pie between the US and China is fairly divided. However, greedy US cooperates get most of the US share whereas Chinese government at least spent a fraction of the trade profit to lift hundreds of millions people out of property
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by majia 7y ago
If you visit some real high schools in China, you’d find they are not very different from these camps. Curfews, political classes, and compulsory attendance are commonplace. These facilities are not built to treat ethnic minorities in the m
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by majia 7y ago
Would you call someone an enemy just because he told his kids not to play with your kids?
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by majia 7y ago
> I don't get why people are so hung up on proof though. The reason you look for proof is not that it gives you 100% security. It is the process of finding proof that helps us understand how secure a product is and what vulnerabilit
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by majia 7y ago
There is a difference between “stay away from me” and “I’m going to f k you up”. If the former also fits your definition of “enemy”, I get your point.
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by majia 7y ago
> China has made it abundantly clear for a long time that it considers the US to be an ideological enemy, a military rival and a target for economic and geopolitical warfare. Not true. China is only interested in preserving its own autho
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by majia 7y ago
I guess this explains what caused power outage in Venezuelan. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_blackouts
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by majia 7y ago
Canada law doesn’t allow extradition if the prosecution is politically motivated. When trump said Meng’s case could be part of a trade deal, it shows the political nature. Yet canada chose not to reject the request because of US pressure.
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by majia 7y ago
because they stand up to the US less often...
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by majia 7y ago
At least in HK you can still protest. In Singapore you’d be put into jail for public disturbance.
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by majia 7y ago
Freedom and democracy are never requirements for being a global financial center. What capitalists want are stable government, low tax and few regulations. They don’t care if some political dissents are sent to Beijing.
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by majia 7y ago
It seems you don’t have a good idea about what a backdoor is. A tiktok app can’t spy on your email or Facebook message. It’s reasonable to worry about whatever data you give tiktok, but you should probably worry a lot more about Facebook or
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by majia 7y ago
You can probably "trace" most cyber attacks to China. Among all countries, it is comparatively easy for hackers to build a large botnet in China and use it to attack third parties because there are many unsophisticated Chinese int
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by majia 7y ago
Why not? Firstly it doesn’t have to be a rule based traditional court. A jury panel of hk citizens could examine evidence and have a vote of conscience. Secondly hk citizens who are reviewing extradition cases could be representatives from
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by majia 7y ago
I see. I’d agree that the hk government should have done more to convince people that the extradition law will not be abused.
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by majia 7y ago
I still don't understand why a robust review process cannot prevent China from capturing anyone passing through Hong Kong. What about letting protesters to form a committee to decide how can be extradited?
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by majia 7y ago
Internet infrastructure is very complex and some minor telecom configuration mistake can easily cause non-optimal routing of packets. It seems that the accident is caused by an error by a Swiss data center, but somehow Chinese telecom is bl
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by majia 7y ago
Could there be a reasonable compromise? For example each extradition case must be reviewed by an independent court or a board made of independent citizen representatives. A very high bar for extradition with sufficient due process can hopef
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by majia 7y ago
7 years is really a long time and there is likely to be some real needs to adjust business operation. If the deal doesn’t specify a duration to keep jobs in canada, you can’t reasonably expect it to be forever. CCP has done horrible things,
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by majia 7y ago
I think he’s being sarcastic.
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by majia 7y ago
The question is what is the due process to ban wechat. An executive order from Trump? If wechat is banned, should all other Chinese apps and websites be banned because every Chinese company is tied to Chinese government? If someone objects
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by majia 7y ago
Hopefully not. A healthy competition is better than Microsoft monopoly. If China could spend billions of dollars on an open OS and make it compatible with major windows applications, it would be better for everyone. This is challenging beca
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by majia 7y ago
Most students returned to China because they are not allowed to work in the US. The chance of getting a work visa dropped significantly since 2010s. Foreign students aren’t getting American education for free; they pay much higher tuition.
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by majia 7y ago
The US exports Freedom Gas while China makes Oppression Cars and Phones.
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by majia 7y ago
Everyone is just asking for the government's approval without any public discourse or legal challenge. This effectively gives the government a free ticket to interfere international scientific and industrial collaboration without any l
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by majia 7y ago
US law says that an Ericsson 5G researcher from Sweden cannot have his paper reviewed by a Huawei employee, who could be the most knowledgeable expert in the sub-domain. Justifying this kind of unjust law is like saying Google should comply

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