why?
"concerns about the illiberal, authoritarian communist government of China"
That's not everything the TFA says. It begins talking about how uncivil the Chinese are.
I’m leaving China
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#12D-DOSed?
Wordpress doesn't scale that well, I assume the database was just overloaded.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
"concerns about the illiberal, authoritarian communist government of China"
That's not everything the TFA says. It begins talking about how uncivil the Chinese are.
I am sympathetic to the discussion of the government. The emphasis on line cutting and gawking is interesting as a foreigner (experienced gawking too in Seoul) but it does seem to contradict the author's contention that the reason for leaving has nothing to do with Chinese people and culture.
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#14Speaking as someone essentially atheist (or at least, secular humanist), this entire piece is IMHO the strongest [secular] argument that can be made for Christianity's positive effect on Western values.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not everything the TFA says. It begins talking about how uncivil the Chinese are.
I am sympathetic to the discussion of the government. The emphasis on line cutting and gawking is interesting as a foreigner (experienced gawking too in Seoul) but it does seem to contradict the author's contention that the reason for leaving has nothing to do with Chinese people and culture.
That's a fair point.
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#16So this guy lived in China in 7 years and never felt anything wrong. But after he lost his job, suddenly felt threat from ccp?
This is just a pathetic guy who lost job and try to get some credits by blaming ccp. Just like blaming everything to russia.
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#17Baldings' words parallel Domino Theory.
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#18I find it strange that the author continues to reiterate how they're a libertarian and even criticizes the "god is money" view of the Chinese, when back here in the United States the god is indeed money too, we just pretend it is not. Libertarianism requires the same practice around fiscal matters. The god must be money under libertarianism because it is every man for himself, dictated by your level of wealth. The will of the people vested in a working government defends the weak against the excesses and greed of the rich. Libertarianism does not solve this, it merely replaces a government not actually formed by the will of the people with those who have the most resources and have the asymmetrical bargaining power.
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#19can someone please summarize? a bit too long to read at the moment
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
"concerns about the illiberal, authoritarian communist government of China"
That's not everything the TFA says. It begins talking about how uncivil the Chinese are.
No, it begins with: "In early November 2017, the HSBC Business School informed me they would not renew my contract. In March 2018 they informed me they wished to sever all ties by April 1, 2018."