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Sounds like hypernormalisation has now hit the West https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

Funny to see how all the commenters just ignored point 2.

But it does. At the very least, you need to keep paying off the people in power and do everything within the framework of their rules, otherwise you’re in trouble

I can enjoy music at home or at any private space. One of the main ideas behind clubbing is to enjoy the music in a community of like-minded people and fostering that sense of conn…

Incredibly thankful for Berlin bouncers for doing their job properly, and not letting people in who think that as long as they "give money" everything should spread open for them, …

One can hope that every single one of the 200+ highly educated members of the elite ruling class of Canada made this “honest oversight”. At least they can claim it after some kind …

This is where the Overton window is shifting. See the deafening silence of the media on Nazis in Ukraine, and the recent mind-blowing case of the heads of state of Canada, Ukraine,…

The parent is talking about communicating with friends and family. My point is not about evading surveillance, it's about not using one of the main tools of the CCP censorship appa…

There is no such thing as "the law" in China. You may be imprisoned or disappeared if you didn't do anything to circumvent "the law", there are always undisclosed "relevant rules a…

"Have no choice" is false. Fortunately, email still works. As does any messenger through a VPN. Using Wechat is simply being complicit with censorship out of laziness.

Chinese policies (or laws, or contracts etc.) don’t mean anything

Hong Kong is not China

This is because they can't find jobs abroad and can't even speak a foreign language properly after spending their undergrad years in a Chinese international student bubble. Quoting…

Indeed. The best things about Hong Kong are all colonial legacy.

Hong Kong is not China

> Also they brought the most populous country in the world from extreme poverty to a near superpower status Before that, they first had to bring the country into extreme poverty (s…

Extremely accurate and valuable comment, thank you. Your "broadcast message" explains the situation very concisely.

China has never stopped being a poor third world country.

That's only if your company is a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise (WFOE), which come with its own special set of deliberately roadblocks which are not there if a Chinese partner is …

If anything, the population is underreported. The 2010 census claims it to be around 1.3 billion. But it is widely accepted as a fact that a lot of people in the countryside weren'…

They've already ravaged it, no need in trying further.

The CPC is still in power.

Is invoked in EVERY China-related thread on HN pretty much without exceptions.