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I am happy to see Tencent-owned Miniclip die. Hope their mobile games will face similar fate, and that moral companies will take their place.

If your market is large enough and the tariffs are high enough then it seems logical that tariffs will force the companies to manufacture their goods elsewhere to stay competitive …

We definitely need laws that require companies to display this information online as well so that ethical shoppers aren't forced to go to the stores to avoid Made in China products…

I hope they don't do anything. It's extremely hypocritical to see companies stand up to Russia yet fail to do the same with China, who in recent years stripped Hong Kongers of thei…

That spyware thankfully isn't no mine, and if you're forced to use it (if you for whatever reason can't use Jitsi/Teams) then I strongly encourage you not to install the app and in…

I think you can compare it to "natural scrolling" - imagine if an operating system suddenly flipped the default scrolling direction without even presenting a dialog where you could…

They had a couple big blunders with the ugly border/expansion when clicking the address bar, and "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order".. both of these things should…

I don't think it's one-sided at all. If you look at the 30 most popular stories in the past year then 5 of them paints China in a positive light ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange…

The Economist claim China have had 140k to 1.9m excess deaths since the pandemic started in Wuhan ( https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-... ). It's of cours…

> All other search engines that I've come across are for-profit. Please let me know if I've missed one! https://www.ecosia.org/ https://ask.moe/ https://ekoru.org/ I remember seein…

The reason it took more than a year for me to realize this phenomenon is because when I first visited the country then I relied on travel agencies, international hotel booking apps…

In every other country you show them your passport, you write your signature and you pay a deposit - done. In China you either need to go through an agency that have something simi…

We wouldn't be turning into China if we only banned Chinese companies, if we only blacklisted/punished western companies that spread CCP propaganda (nine-dash line, calling Taiwan …

I'm personally opposed to the idea of visiting certain countries, such as China and North Korea, to 'see for yourself', especially when you don't know the language, when you're not…

The Embassy of France in China also posted a translated version to China's version of Twitter: https://weibo.com/1987630007/L5n5ny5iF . The post itself has surprisingly not been ce…