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I can't tell you all but among them: - Using the murder in Taiwan as a pretext to introduce the bill when it could easily have been handled ad hoc with Taiwan. - Claiming it was a …

Regarding police brutality, I don't think it's fair to dismiss this as "fake news". Amnesty international, for example, have investigated and found plenty of problematic behaviour …

Seems a little bit unfair not to mention the five demands in this context: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/13/what-do-the-ho... If you really want to "interpret" the mes…

It was the mistakes of a highly centralized government that helped thrust those same people into poverty in the first place. Why should centralism be credited for helping pull them…

When I referred to "protectionism in general here" I was thinking mostly of its consequences for developing countries during and after their rise to prosperity. I'm afraid my histo…

Thanks for the honest and detailed response. It definitely makes it easier to engage with an opposing view :-) Firstly regarding the size of China. I do take the point that this ma…

The results? China has not yet achieved the wealth of liberal democracies in the West and taken decades or centuries longer to get there. Moreover, Taiwan, South Korea and (earlier…