China is offended by him offering an opinion on something. So, that makes them right? I'm offended by his backpedaling. That makes me right, right? China really needs to get a grip and understand that with seven billion people in the world, not everyone is going to agree with everything it wants.
The NBA Feels a Backlash in China After a Tweet Supporting Hong Kong
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#13The companies and people of the Western world need to stand up to authoritarian China ... or else, in 25 years our kids are all going to be tasting the boot heel of whatever god emperor China has on its throne at that time (probably still Xi).
We are all underestimating how authoritarian China is and how much crime the Politburo members get away with.
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#14China is offended by him offering an opinion on something. So, that makes them right? I'm offended by his backpedaling. That makes me right, right? China really needs to get a grip and understand that with seven billion people in the world, not everyone is going to agree with everything it wants.
1.4 billion of those people are Chinese, and they can get outaged over whatever ridiculous shit they want.
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#18So many misunderstandings around this. For one, in the US we have free speech. That means that you can say anything you want, but you have to accept that you may lose customers for saying it. It doesn't matter if you believe that your customers shouldn't be pissed off. It's the Chinese in this case, but it could be any other relevant group. Second, perhaps because most Americans haven't been to China and cannot read…
As if this was a choice for people from Hong Kong
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#19Why not just shut the fuck to and promote sport?
This is how we know some (many?) successful people just got lucky with the birth lottery and generally being in the right places and knowing the right people.
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#20So many misunderstandings around this. For one, in the US we have free speech. That means that you can say anything you want, but you have to accept that you may lose customers for saying it. It doesn't matter if you believe that your customers shouldn't be pissed off. It's the Chinese in this case, but it could be any other relevant group. Second, perhaps because most Americans haven't been to China and cannot read…
Hong Kong was always going to return to China in 1997 due to a British-China deal. There's no way for HK to NOT return to China.