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Imperialist Dog posted:PRC: How much is Taiwan paying you to keep diplomatic relations? Beat me to it.
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:Was that a tournament win or even a notable match? China has to take what they can I guess. it is their only win in world cup qualifying in the third round of the AFC for the 2018 World Cup. i did a write up here The Great Autismo! posted:i've got great news for the thread, china tied war torn syria 2-2 at a neutral location, so they are not mathematically eliminated from the world cup yet! with two games to go, they are only six points back from football juggernaut Uzbekistan White Wolves, and can still catch them if they win both of their games by a very large amount and Uzbekistan loses their last two games.
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sincx fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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The Great Autismo! posted:it is their only win in world cup qualifying in the third round of the AFC for the 2018 World Cup. That win is about on par with most battles won by a Chinese army in WWII so it's deserving of the monument.
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:That win is about on par with most battles won by a Chinese army in WWII so it's deserving of the monument. 
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Bloodnose posted:Yes, actually. I am legit proud of the fact that ... hate speech [is] legal in the US. It's not tho edit: or you mean saying the jews control stuff or w/e yeah that owns Modest Mao fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Jun 14, 2017 |
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Jun 14, 2017 05:35
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Mr. Nice! posted:Didn't china build a larger canal that's had structural problems? Concrete poured by a belgian-dutch-spanish consortium that lowballed betchel, had nothing to do with China unlike what the usual peanut gallery would like to think
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Jun 14, 2017 06:50
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apropos of nothingquote:Chinese investment in Panama has vastly expanded in recent years as Beijing has pushed to secure trade and investment deals around the world. The Panama Canal, the narrow choke-point through which virtually all Pacific-Atlantic maritime trade must flow, has been a particular target. In 2016, the Chinese state-linked Landbridge Group signed a 99-year lease for Panama's largest port, Margarita Island, which handles distribution of goods on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal. Chinese state enterprises have also looked to develop approximately 1,200 hectares of land around the canal. quote:Panama's change of heart suggests that Taiwan's other relationships in the region may be in jeopardy: Nicaragua also maintains relations with Taiwan, and it has also received billions of dollars of Chinese investment.
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Peven Stan posted:Concrete poured by a belgian-dutch-spanish consortium that lowballed betchel, had nothing to do with China unlike what the usual peanut gallery would like to think Yeah that's why i retracted that statement. IIRC the reason it leaked the way it did was improper shaking or mixing or somesuch.
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He's really lost it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ukN2jovdpk
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Jun 14, 2017 16:57
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English really suffers here, doesn't it? Does the writer mean nationally, culturally, or linguistically?
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Jun 14, 2017 17:43
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Ironically, Michael Chugani has his own line of English learning products
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Bloodnose posted:Ironically, Michael Chugani has his own line of English learning products Chugani Vs Regina!
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Michael Chugani looks like his skeleton is trying to come out through his face.
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quote:Many young people distance themselves from being Chinese. They identify themselves solely as Hongkongers. You can say you’re from outer space but unless you have bulging eyes, pointy ears, and scaly green skin, only kooks will believe you. quote:Saying I’m from Hong Kong won’t suffice. They always retort I don’t look Chinese. The only way to satisfy them is to say I’m Hong Kong-born with Indian parents and that I’m also a naturalised American. quote:OK, that’s an unfair comparison. Chinese-Americans live in a democracy. Young Hongkongers fear the growing shadow of communist China will darken their future freedoms. 
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Jun 15, 2017 00:59
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Since China has abandoned socialism, Hong Kong should be an independent socialist republic and show Singapore how city states are done.
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As opposed to what you say you are, correct.
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BCR posted:Since China has abandoned socialism, Hong Kong should be an independent socialist republic and show Singapore how city states are done. No Hong Kong need to remain a Libertarian dystopia to remind people how bad Libertarianism is. Leegapore is well on its way to adopt North Korea's political system anyway.
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Hong Kong is libertarian?
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hong kong divorce lunch posted:Hong Kong is libertarian? More of a state-corporatist oligarchy imho
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hailthefish posted:More of a state-corporatist oligarchy imho It takes a long time to kick the oligarchs out. Li Ka shing only got his rear end out of HK recently. The HK government proper is still pretty powerless.
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hailthefish posted:More of a state-corporatist oligarchy imho Yes that's what libertarians actually want.
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hailthefish posted:More of a state-corporatist oligarchy imho Scratch a libertarian and you wound a state capitalist so yeah.
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hong kong divorce lunch posted:Hong Kong is libertarian? It was Ron Paul's vision for America in the late 80's/early 90's.
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Arglebargle III posted:Scratch a libertarian and you wound a state capitalist so yeah. State capitalism is Mainland China.
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Jun 16, 2017 16:22
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Only if it's business. There are many things that are not libertarian, as far as I understand that stuff.
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hong kong divorce lunch posted:Hong Kong is libertarian? that's what snowden thought
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I always thought it weird that it scores high on libertarian freedom indexes when there's literally no suffrage
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Because the only freedom libertarians actually care about is exploiting people for profits maximized by a lack of rules or ethics.
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See for instance: Qatar tending to rank high on "libertarian" index scores, despite being a strong monarchy with limited parliamentary rpower, and also full of straight up slavery.
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is hong kong (or was, i guess, before the mainlanders showed up) meaningfully different in its internal system than singapore? i would expect it to have been more liberal under direct british rule than LKY's chinese racial supremacist police state, is that accurate?
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Well in terms of press freedom, Reporters Without Borders just opted to set up their Asia office in Taiwan instead of Hong Kong. Taiwan ranks something like 51st in terms of global press freedom, HK 69th, China 138th, or similar (this is all from memory) They feel there was freer press here under 80s British Colonial rule
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VideoTapir posted:State capitalism is Mainland China. Yeah I thought we were talking about Hong Kong.
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simplefish posted:Well in terms of press freedom, Reporters Without Borders just opted to set up their Asia office in Taiwan instead of Hong Kong. Taiwan ranks something like 51st in terms of global press freedom, HK 69th, China 138th, or similar (this is all from memory) Taiwan's press is both free and utter garbage Ranked 45th. Why? China 
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sincx posted:State capitalism isn't too different from oligarchy controlled by corporate interests. come to shenyang man I'll buy you a beer
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Modest Mao posted:Taiwan's press is both free and utter garbage They have those cool animated news videos which is an instant +10
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icantfindaname posted:is hong kong (or was, i guess, before the mainlanders showed up) meaningfully different in its internal system than singapore? i would expect it to have been more liberal under direct british rule than LKY's chinese racial supremacist police state, is that accurate? obviously i mean for one thing you had a series of colonial governors and not, you know, an "illiberal democratic" dictatorship, so that's a big difference structurally, i mean you had the top as British, but they started letting locals take the civil service exams pretty early into the rule, and then stopped during wwii and reopened it up again to locals after that the last governor, patten, actively promoted democracy as much as he could before he left office, which you know, kind of hypocritical, but is what it is as to whether or not British rule is more liberal overall, i think that's a tough call, because obviously you had a certain amount of freedoms that you don't necessarily see in the lky sp regime; on the other hand, you have a colonial governor who answers to no local constituencies and is accountable to the British crown so it's a real toss up e: speaking of lky quote:Lee Wei Ling, the 62-year-old middle child of Singapore’s revered founding leader, released the emails on Facebook after her eldest brother Lee Hsien Loong, the city state’s current premier, launched a stunning broadside at her and their youngest sibling Lee Hsien Yang over their handling of the family estate. 
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