China’s assault on Cathay Pacific
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China’s assault on Cathay Pacific
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#2>Chinese inspectors have started screening the phones of Cathay crew for anti-Beijing material.
If that doesn't persuade ordinary Hong Kongers to love and trust the mainland authorities, I don't know what will.
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#4I have said it before but all of this is pretty classic fascist behavior where loyalty to the corporate state is demanded without question. This is for all serving purposes a monster that the West created. I just worry about what this looks like going forward, where we have this huge massive superpower which acts this way and can't be questioned.
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#5>Chinese inspectors have started screening the phones of Cathay crew for anti-Beijing material. If that doesn't persuade ordinary Hong Kongers to love and trust the mainland authorities, I don't know what will.
If you’re a Hong Kong resident, what are your options? Can you flee the country with a visa to a first world country with rights less under pressure from a totalitarian state?
Edit: I genuinely appreciate all of the replies to this comment as this humanitarian crisis unfolds.
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#6As opposed to Trump's or Thiel's assault on Google?
Re: China’s assault on Cathay Pacific
#7I have said it before but all of this is pretty classic fascist behavior where loyalty to the corporate state is demanded without question. This is for all serving purposes a monster that the West created. I just worry about what this looks like going forward, where we have this huge massive superpower which acts this way and can't be questioned.
No disagreements with your base assessment, but how did the west create this situation?
China has a longer continuous timeline than the western powers by far. Are the current political moires there not another node on that chain?
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#8As opposed to Trump's or Thiel's assault on Google?
Thiel is just trying to find out if Alphabet's life sciences division has made any advances in eyebrow regrowth.
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#9https://outline.com/NG6tPU
How does outline work? how do they get around the login feature
Re: China’s assault on Cathay Pacific
#10I have said it before but all of this is pretty classic fascist behavior where loyalty to the corporate state is demanded without question. This is for all serving purposes a monster that the West created. I just worry about what this looks like going forward, where we have this huge massive superpower which acts this way and can't be questioned.
No disagreements with your base assessment, but how did the west create this situation? China has a longer continuous timeline than the western powers by far. Are the current political moires there not another node on that chain?
Valuing trade with China over human rights. Trade that enabled China’s superpower status. Taming the monster will be...tricky.
You either have enough leverage that Beijing backs down (China is in a very precarious economic condition at the moment, don’t let it go to waste; prevent further rise in power long enough for their demographic transition to complete), or you support internal revolutionaries (which the US has done enough previously in its history I don’t need to detail here). Anything else will be outright world war (probably starting near HK, perhaps with the destruction of the bridge connecting it to the mainland to stave off a ground invasion).