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by taiwanboy 7y ago
Interesting that China is just a blurb in the article. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Industry-in-focus/Virus-hit... 65% of 1,506 Chinese SMEs surveyed in early February expect to run out of cash within 1 month,
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Beijing locked down as Wuhan virus continues to spread in China(taiwannews.com.tw)
2 points by taiwanboy 7y ago|0 comments
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
China is currently fighting 7 wars 1.) internal political war between xi jing ping of the old guards and the moderates. Check sinoinsider if you wish to know more. 2.) internal provincial wars with Tibet, Xinjiang, and Hong Kong. 3.) confli
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
At this point, small foreign business operating in China will go out of business due to supply chain shutdown and illiquidity. Mid sized businesses will have a huge one time cost/write off moving operations out of China. Large multinat
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
10x underreporting -> 1 in 8 million Fast mutation due to hundreds of million travelers + possiblity of being stuck in a city with a new order of unable to travel out for 30/60 days = no good reason to travel to china
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
Yup SARS did not coincide with hundred of millions of people stuffed in closed compact train cars and plane seats for hours at a time. This coronavirus might mutate faster than we could predict. Nobody should be traveling to China right no
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
Wuhan is in the middle of China, every transit passes through it. It’s like the Chicago of China. There is no way in hell the government is going to able to lock it down.
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
The Chinese government has had difficulties handling the situation. I think we might need WHO to jump in soon. (Chinese New Years is in 3 days and few hundred million people will travel in congested trains and flights. Also people in China
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New China Virus: Cases Triple as Infection Spreads to Beijing and Shanghai(bbc.com)
1 points by taiwanboy 7y ago|0 comments
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
Well put. Also most of the commenters here don’t realize that people who have been unemployed for a while can’t just get to a regular job without a low wage job in between that helps to pay for some of the costs of going to school. Also, w
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
As a fellow taiwanese, I am proud he has gotten his message out so much already as a presidential candidate. On a related note, congratulation to president tsai being re-elected yesterday! Thank god the evil Chinese communist party was not
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This is how brainwashed look like(reddit.com)
26 points by taiwanboy 7y ago|7 comments
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Hong Kong Protest, Largest in Weeks, Stretches Several Miles(nytimes.com)
3 points by taiwanboy 7y ago|0 comments
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Trump signs bill supporting Hong Kong protesters despite Chinese opposition(thehill.com)
10 points by taiwanboy 7y ago|2 comments
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
It’s most likely due to the changing climate for companies (especially American and Canadian) operating in China. Check out this article: “how to survive an increasing difficult China” https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
I just mentioned in another thread that The most fundamental issue US needs to solve for inequality in the US is....whether US can continue to allow corporations to reap the benefits of a strong democracy coupled with the most vibrant econo
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
I would propose The most fundamental issue US needs to solve for inequality in the US is....whether US can continue to allow corporations to reap the benefits of a strong democracy coupled with the most vibrant economy, while at the same ti
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
US has the strongest economy in the world and it’s obvious that it is going to grow since its main competitors (Europe, China, Japan) have declined. (Think market share increase and capital increase, in terms of a company) The main two prob
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
Please do show your evidence. From what I have read, it’s the opposite. white-collar workers have seen their wages grow by nearly 7.5% https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/08/14/blue-colla...
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China’s mysterious ‘Bian Kong’ that can bar anyone from leaving the country(sg.news.yahoo.com)
1 points by taiwanboy 7y ago|0 comments
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
This is an ominous development for Hong Kong citizens. There is talk of martial law (and use of physical violence by the Chinese army) by this weekend or beyond in Hong Kong. Without the timely reporting from Hong Kong citizens to hacker ne
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
There are a few dynamics at play here 1.) even with some declining cities, US cities are still some of the most powerful in the world. According to https://howmuch.net/articles/the-economic-size-of-metro-area... (2017
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
I could be starting a food war here but I dare declare that California has the best cuisines in the world because 1.) for many of the ethnicities, california usually has the largest immigrant communities, outside of the native country. Ther
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
Fair enough
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
According to the government, yes. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/more-restrictive-us-...
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
If you believe that the Chinese government will never use the AI talents/research incubated by google for military usages, then you also must believe when Beijing proclaimed they would never weaponize South China Sea, and has never sto
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
And the article actually glanced at but didn’t elaborate on - Google decided to open a new AI research center in China, expanding its existing presence there. This in the face of expanding AI assisted surveillance in xinjiang and its 10 mil
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
It is true. US inequality rose around 1980. almost specifically around the time of japan (and Asia) and Europe’s rise from ashes and US losing jobs to globalization. They were a mere fraction of their former self before then. Japan’s gdp s
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
Post war boom had the European and Japanese economy offline, and Chinese economy nonexistent. So no globalization threat. It is very unrealistic to compare to it or expect that condition again (unless we are talking about 100% tariffs comin
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
MBAs are appreciated everywhere that requires pricing, managing, product market fit, positioning, finance, analytics skillset. Basically everywhere that wants to make money, including Bay Area.

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