Xinjiang is prototype for fully totalitarian state: Taiwan minister
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Re: Xinjiang is prototype for fully totalitarian state: Taiwan minister
#2Everyone is too afraid to even comment
Re: Xinjiang is prototype for fully totalitarian state: Taiwan minister
#3She specifically warns about chinese companies inflitrating infrastructure and the Canadian govt just handed over our embassy security to them: https://nationalpost.com/news/chinese-government-owned-firm-....
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Re: Xinjiang is prototype for fully totalitarian state: Taiwan minister
#5So I am at once digital minister, that's my day job. But I'm also moonlighting as a civic hacker," Tang said. "I see myself as a channel, as a bridge, as a Lagrangian point between civic movements on one side and government on the other."
I wish we had people like her running things in the US.
Re: Xinjiang is prototype for fully totalitarian state: Taiwan minister
#6Everyone is too afraid to even comment
I think a more likely explanation is that the article is very short, and the assertion in the title is neither novel nor controversial (at least from my read of general sentiment in this forum).
Re: Xinjiang is prototype for fully totalitarian state: Taiwan minister
#7So I am at once digital minister, that's my day job. But I'm also moonlighting as a civic hacker," Tang said. "I see myself as a channel, as a bridge, as a Lagrangian point between civic movements on one side and government on the other." I wish we had people like her running things in the US.
For those who don’t know, Audrey Tang wrote the first implementation of the Raku language in Haskell back in the day. She’s really smart, and I’d put her in charge of just about anything.
Re: Xinjiang is prototype for fully totalitarian state: Taiwan minister
#8She specifically warns about chinese companies inflitrating infrastructure and the Canadian govt just handed over our embassy security to them: https://nationalpost.com/news/chinese-government-owned-firm-... .
Someone had to say it. For decades Taiwan has played coy, not wanting to anger its larger neighbor who’s got missiles pointed its way and often war-games invasions. It feels like CNs actions in HK and XJ are laying bare any pretensions, so Taiwan is hoping the West will come to its aid if the day comes. Previous admins have been hesitant to upset commerce, one hopes we don’t have to find out if the current admin has the appetite to engage. But who knows how bent they are on annexing the “renegade province”.
Re: Xinjiang is prototype for fully totalitarian state: Taiwan minister
#9So I am at once digital minister, that's my day job. But I'm also moonlighting as a civic hacker," Tang said. "I see myself as a channel, as a bridge, as a Lagrangian point between civic movements on one side and government on the other." I wish we had people like her running things in the US.
For those who don’t know, Audrey Tang wrote the first implementation of the Raku language in Haskell back in the day. She’s really smart, and I’d put her in charge of just about anything.
She also wrote a Perl6 implementation IIRC
Re: Xinjiang is prototype for fully totalitarian state: Taiwan minister
#10She specifically warns about chinese companies inflitrating infrastructure and the Canadian govt just handed over our embassy security to them: https://nationalpost.com/news/chinese-government-owned-firm-... .
At least they're not networked. The potential threat model seems a lot easier to manage.