throwaway1997

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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Americans can safely criticise and scrutinise their own government in most cases.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Taiwan promotes nationalism of its own nation, although it's nowhere near as hardline as the mainland.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Yes, there are many mainland Chinese living in Hong Kong.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
The author of the article is called Yifan Xie. I don't think it's anti-china propaganda.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
That massage joint is quite popular with HK locals. We cross the border and get hotpot and cheap (legitimate) massages. I've been there for a few times. Most of the masseuses are middle aged men and women.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
HK has been over-reliant on these businesses to provide employment for a long time. Most of the F&B outfits that are closing are fly by night outfits which would only work when everyone in CBD has more money than sense. It will be a goo
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
KMT is related to Taiwan even though they want closer ties to CCP
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Macau is all in on a single industry which works when the economy is going well, but not so well when it tanks. Furthermore, the concentration of wealth in Macau is even more skewed towards the top. The average Macanese is poorer than the a
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
The problem is that in general for most companies, especially related to discretionary spending, the proportion of customers who are from China is increasing. Over time they end up kowtowing because the Chinese users threaten to boycott the
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
This is an example of whataboutery, a fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
He was employed by a foreign consulate but, in the mind of the Chinese government, he is a Chinese and therefore belongs to China.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
The Xiaomi phones have this. You can create a "Second Space" with a different PIN (or using a different fingerprint to unlock it) from the first. When you use the second PIN it unlocks a completely separate environment which is no
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
GDP != Value. HK continues to be the jurisdiction of choice for mainland companies wishing to do business with the west and vice versa because the rule of law increases people's confidence in the validity of any contracts signed. The H
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
They mostly deal with investigating the crime of "Accessing a Computer with Dishonest Intent" which is a catch all law which can apply to completely non-computer related crimes.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Yes, if you deliberately ignore any of the bad things the government did, and focus on the bad things the protestors did, that story is roughly accurate.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Name a country who democratised through entirely peaceful means. Hint: there aren't many
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Sources please. I, and everyone I know, pay for our own gear. We haven't received any offer of funding from foreign nations.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Even with our fake democracy, it's very common for people to buy votes from elderly people, who make up much of the population, and don't really understand democracy. We have a lot of poverty here so it's very easy to buy vot
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
I buy from China as part of my job and we usually either buy in Hong Kong dollars, US dollars or RMB and dump the RMB as soon as possible. One of the reasons that HK exists in its current form is to allow us to easily dump RMB.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
It's controlled outrage. The Chinese government controls what they see and therefore where the outrage is directed towards. The average Chinese person either doesn't know about Tinanmen or agrees with it, but are outraged by this.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
There isn't. GP is confusing Taiwan and Tibet for Hong Kong/Macau. TW and Tibet are territories claimed by China whereas HK and Macau are indisputably Chinese cities but under a special arrangement which theoretically should give
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
The crisis in Hong Kong is not a separatist movement, unlike Catalonia.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
It's pro-human rights and socially liberal. I guess there is a lot of intersection because Beijing systematically oppresses people but the bias isn't explicitly anti-Beijing
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
In Asia we mostly hear bad news as well. The economy of China really is slowing down and there is a massive housing bubble which is evidenced by huge numbers of unoccupied newbuilds which are already crumbling down. And it's a fact tha
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
We have the most unaffordable property market in the world, technology is stagnating, corrupt construction companies are cutting corners and building dangerous infrastructure. Yeah sure.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
By protestors, you mean people who attempted to spread the cultural revolution into Hong Kong and ultimately failed.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
You can buy Airsoft equipment in pretty much any shopping mall in Hong Kong and we have an entire street (Kwong Wah Street) which is lined with Airsoft shops.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Hong Kong has entire streets dedicated to selling replica guns and other Airsoft equipment. Airsoft (known locally as "wargames") is hugely popular in Hong Kong and completely legal.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
Yes it is calculated. Arbitrary arrests of foreign nationals in China usually ramp up in direct proportion to escalations in political disputes between China and their country of nationality.
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by throwaway1997 7y ago
China has done a very good job of destroying its own culture since the cultural revolution. Hong Kong and Taiwan have preserved more of the traditional culture while continuing to move forward.

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