Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China

Post by Silfen » Sat, Feb 20, 2016, 12:11 AM UTC

x5n1 wrote: post #180

ferentchak wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the normal thing to do in the States too. Quote stolen from another thread: "Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age of beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick,…

American business mantra: better to ask for forgiveness after committing the crime, then to ask for permission before. I don't know any major business who does not follow this.

Post by mjevans » Sat, Feb 20, 2016, 12:14 AM UTC

sharetea wrote: post #175

tootie wrote: post #174

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I like that you said you were stealing from another thread and then quoted a book. A book that isn't evidence of your assertion.

yeah I thought about rebuking his point, but someone who quotes fiction texts not from 'another thread', but from a book written in 1957 that was talking more about socialism and fascism in Hitler's Germany and Russia, and proceeds to copy and paste an entire paragraph in order to support his point about US in 2016 Well, that's some sort of superpower right there.

Post by goodcjw2 » Sat, Feb 20, 2016, 12:21 AM UTC

x5n1 wrote: post #178

rdlecler1 wrote: post #137

Any non-Chinese company that insists on tying its fortune to the Chinese market is taking on tremendous risk. The goal posts are always changing , you need to constantly worry about IP theft, you can easily get on the wrong side of the government, and they strongly protect local interests. Investment is welcome, but as soon as you actually start making a lot of money and recouping your investment some barrier of sort…

Chinese don't care about the global Capitalist class. Chinese care about China. It's the way it should be. South Koreans also don't care about the foreign Capitalist class and neither do the Japanese. The only reason they allow foreign investment is for market development and perhaps to get some corporate know-how and secrets. Chinese don't need the money, most Chinese can get the loans from the government based on h…

Post by driverdan » Sat, Feb 20, 2016, 12:28 AM UTC

x5n1 wrote: post #178

rdlecler1 wrote: post #137

Any non-Chinese company that insists on tying its fortune to the Chinese market is taking on tremendous risk. The goal posts are always changing , you need to constantly worry about IP theft, you can easily get on the wrong side of the government, and they strongly protect local interests. Investment is welcome, but as soon as you actually start making a lot of money and recouping your investment some barrier of sort…

Chinese don't care about the global Capitalist class. Chinese care about China. It's the way it should be. South Koreans also don't care about the foreign Capitalist class and neither do the Japanese. The only reason they allow foreign investment is for market development and perhaps to get some corporate know-how and secrets. Chinese don't need the money, most Chinese can get the loans from the government based on h…

Post by sdm » Sat, Feb 20, 2016, 12:38 AM UTC

sharetea wrote: post #117

dageshi wrote: post #13

Sounds like the normal thing in China. Make something illegal, don't enforce it, if someone's saying something you don't like then enforce it specifically against them, keeps everyone else in line.

echoing what vpalan2 said below: "If I wanted to do massive, irreparable harm to China, this is the law I would pass. And yet, they have done this willingly to themselves, without hesitation or incident." These aren't the smart engineering politicians with a 10 year view China has foisted its fable onto the world. These are the corrupt paranoid politicians who know they are one mass protest away from having all their…