Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence • Hacker News Board

Re: Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence

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Post by ipnon » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:11 AM UTC

emn13 wrote: post #83

josephtill wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Only if the post praises BLM and criticizes MAGA... Lots of people have lost their jobs (and even dropped from public funded colleges) because of this. I've never heard of such a thing. Could you give a specific example of these "lots of people"?

Additionally, this framing - of MAGA vs. BLM - is also unreasonable. Hiring processes are by design discriminatory; people don't just hire at random. There's no reason to assume public statements by a candidate that appear to fall in a pro-BLM bucket would be as attractive to the hiring process as statements that fall in a MAGA bucket would be unattractive; those two things likely have nothing to do with each other w…

My intention was to show how diametric political frameworks are allowed to exist simultaneously in the US. Most people fall somewhere between.

Re: Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence

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Post by ipnon » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:16 AM UTC

colinmhayes wrote: post #314

PicassoCTs wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ccp is not china.

I mean it sort of is though. There are no elections in China, the CCP has total control over the government. You can claim that a country isn't defined by its government, but many would disagree.

There is so much more to China and the people who come from there than its communism, even though its communism calls the shots. That's sort of how this mess of Cross-Strait relations came about. What is China and what is not is by no means a resolved question. Let's hope for a peaceful resolution.

Re: Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence

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Post by ipnon » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:17 AM UTC

javert wrote: post #364

ipnon wrote: post #229

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It was meant to be in jest, I'm sorry.

It's OK. I forgive you. It wouldn't be right to let a good deed go unpunished on Hacker News. Or unflagged.

All's well that ends well.

Re: Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence

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Post by fmajid » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 9:36 PM UTC

bigbillheck wrote: post #209

fmajid wrote: post #100

The Confucius Institutes should be closed and the mission of representing Chinese culture transferred to Singapore or Taiwan.

> the mission of representing Chinese culture transferred to Singapore or Taiwan This is certainly an interesting view. Who would do the transferring?

All governments regulate agents of foreign powers, and thus can shut down the Confucius Institutes. Whether the replacement is called the Lee Kuan Yew Institute or the Chiangmai Kai Shek Institute is immaterial. The Chinese certainly don’t allow foreign NGOs on their territory and would have no grounds to complain.