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>reported to the Chinese state Chinese law requires Chinese citizens and companies to spy when asked. It's literally a law. https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corpo...
Interesting. Does this make every Chinese citizen in the United States an agent of a foreign power? (I suspect the answer is yes) https://definitions.uslegal.com/a/agent-of-a-foreign-power/
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Please don't take HN threads on partisan flamewar tangents. That's an extremely low quality direction even for flamewars to take. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We are all rightfully outraged that a foreign regime is able to impact free expression on college campuses in the US. It strikes me as relevant that we are building a lot of the same infrastructure of our own accord, with strikingly similar justifications. At this same university, anybody can anonymously complain about professors or other students based on what they say in a classroom or lecture hall, and that compla…
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Well said: "In my world there's always a place for you; you can disagree with me; you can even insult me; I will not fire back because that is your freedom of expression, however In your world there's no place for me; you want to eliminate me and even my family from the world just because I disagree with your government or your ideology; this is puzzling isn't it?"
Beautifully put, what an excellent way to demonstrate what seperates the authoritarian mindset from the liberal mindset.
This a weak response. It reminds me of a fellow student at Wharton. Whatever the question was in classes (ethics, economics) his answer was ALWAYS "I really feel strongly both ways". My friends and I even gave him a price for his answers/behavior at the end. Years later he was a CEO of major corporations. That served him well to never take the stand. Life is full of people who "really feel strongly both ways". It see…
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In 2019, Frances Hui, a student at Emerson College in Boston, wrote an opinion piece for the student newspaper titled "I am from Hong Kong, not China” (1) and she was subjected to doxxing and death threats: The most jarring comment came from a Chinese student at Emerson, who made Hui’s personal Facebook posts public. In one post, he wrote a comment that translates to: “Whomever opposes my greatest China, no matter ho…
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this is exactly the white savior crap that much of the world hates from the US. the sheer arrogance to think that even a significant fraction of Taiwanese would be interested in moving to America, let alone the entire populace. And then the gall to suggest _Ohio, the Mojave, and Alaska_. Bit on the nose, don't you think? I don't understand how you think this rhetoric helps anyone. I guess it lets Americans puff out t…
It seems your family history has been blessed to not know this sort of existential crisis. For generations now, The US of America is, actually and literally, viewed as the land of salvation and opportunity for millions of people around the world. Do not pretend that it is not.
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"creating bioweapons that kill only non-Chinese people"? I've never heard of this before...
How would that even work? There isn’t a gene for Chinese citizenship that would impact any disease or illness. …I’m unfortunately assuming the poster is making a bad-faith reference to COVID-19. Some conspiracy theorists have been labeling it a bio weapon and ignoring the deaths from the initial outbreak.
I worked with people from China at a previous job. They came to visit us (South America) and while having dinner I lightly suggested things in China are difficult when it comes to freedom, right? Their facial expression changed immediately. They said it was better not to talk about that. They were who knows how many kilometers from home, not a single Chinese national around to report them, and they still feared talki…
No one, naturally, would blog about it or openly shout on the street but families and friends (from what I've heard) do talk about these political issues.