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Including address and phone number? Doesn't that also enable public workers to be target of harassment?

You don't have to wage a war upon a broken treaty. China even complained that UK was considering giving path to citizenship to British National Oversea passport holders. Many thing…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Basic_Law It does, article one states HK should have high degree of autonomy and etc... Furthermore, article 23 states that HK should make t…

"I don't have a point so I'm going to pull the race card". Most Hkers are against CCP not China, who does a great job in blending the nation-party-race elements together in disguis…

Now where do 5 demands state independence? Flags of other countries (mostly dominant countries like US and UK) were raised due to US and UK had huge stake in HK from the internatio…

If they are working for it, then yea? Sounds like HKers are working hard for it and on a legal basis it's their right to make their own law within Basic Law , so what's your point …

Exactly what the US just did now? (Removal of special economic and political status) HK receive "Special" treatment in many ways for being NOT really China. They are economically t…

I'm still skeptical about everything they propose as "secure" and "safe" after all the previous security issues and censoring meetings for the memorial of the 1989 Tiananmen massac…

This is kind of off-topic since the issue was these scientists lying about their ties to a foreign government. I wanted to address how people think there's no IP theft here. Althou…

I think the problem is failing to disclose ties with foreign governments. Scientists, just like any professionals, should be held accountable for any potential conflict of interest…

Agree on this. Ive seen social media post portraits the message in the lines of "if you don't support us, then you are part of them". I believe this is a bad tactics to gain suppor…

I agree that a fresh-grad engineer will need some hand-holding in order to get them up to speed, but I disagree they are equivalent to an amateur in the similar field. The mathemat…

I see what you are saying. I think it is hard to separate anti-China and pro-democracy. After all, China is against democracy in the case of HK (Backed by example why universal suf…

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/world/asia/china-began-pu... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_independence#Colonia... In the 60s/70s China was in bad terms with Soviet, U…

I see, you meant true independence as a nation? Hong Kong has a very complex history and culture about independence. To be brief, majority of Hong Kongers never wanted independence…

I remember seeing somewhere that showed recent transaction of an "internet commentator" (WuMao/50cent). They got a pay raise and earn 70cents a thread/post now. lol

I read the tweet you posted about HuXiJin (chief of CCP-backed media), and I LOL'ed very hard on how he responded. (Seems like Xi's 'Wolf Warrior' Diplomacy is true) To be honest, …

Chiming in on anecdotal evidence, I personally experienced a 15% reduction as well. I'm in a smaller startup working on robotics/autonomy. The outlook for VC funding is uncertain s…

But the Swiss arm industry probably made some good fortune during the protest by exporting equipment to HK police.

They are quite different. Personal take, imagine Scottish English vs American English but 2x that.

Essentially, yes. Besides China having sovereignty over the city, it has its own currency, government, different law system than China, a border with China, and different passport.…

First of all, the law has been used in China to persecute political dissident. (Political dissident in that case is anyone who expose any problems in the country or being vocal abo…

Anyways, totally agree on your last part of the comment. China is for sure showing no patient and will value its political stability over any economic benefit reaped from HK. In fa…

Capitalistic and free society Vs. "Communism" and suppressive society. The Sino-British Joint Declaration was to address these concern on merging such polarizing society together, …

Agree on the part about China threatening since the 60s. If I recall correctly, there was a wave of movement on British Colonies raising referendum on independence from Britain sin…