BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

marx: still kickin!

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The downward spiral of gaming companies' stocks came a day after Chinese education authorities directed the country's publishing administration to regulate the total number of online games available on the market, curb the number of new titles and limit playing times for minors.

The directives are part of a broader plan to tackle myopia in a country where more than 36 percent of its fourth graders and 65 percent of its eighth graders wear glasses to school, according to official data published in July this year.

BrainDance posted:

what about adding -esque to everything? then everyone knows you're super smart.

A unified Korea is such an unlikely possibility now I don't think anyone actually seriously even plans for it as a possibility. The sun might also explode killing us all but the odds are so small it's not worth bothering with.

BrainDance posted:

lol yeah ok guys, sure.

Unified Korea 2020.

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1127648338323525632

R. Guyovich posted:

stoller reliably has the politics of a 19th-century opium dealer

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

https://twitter.com/chinesebot2b/status/1138657889189388289?s=21

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

I don't buy that the We Love The Brits stuff is more than a very vocal minority. it reminds me of the very small part of the iranian opposition that wants the shah back. Basically weird hopeless reactionaries trying to hook onto a popular movement.

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

alt-right / china thread crossover, like a really bad comic book tie-in

https://twitter.com/HongKongHermit/status/1147816761707728897
https://twitter.com/coconutsdotco/status/1147869272955183104

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

https://twitter.com/JohnHolbein1/status/1088123210510389248

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Our experimental sample is drawn from among the undergraduate student body at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Studying the protest participation of university students is of particular interest given students’ historical engagement in movements for political rights around the world (Glaeser et al., 2007), and in Hong Kong specifically. Students disproportionately involve in Hong Kong’s movement for political rights — for example, in the broader Hong Kong population, participation in the Umbrella Revolution was under 5%, while among students in our sample it is around 45%. We recruit subjects to participate in a survey on students’ preferences, waves of which have been collected since 2015 (see Cantoni et al., 2016, 2019 for more details). A recruitment email is sent to the entire HKUST undergraduate student body, and typically between 10% and 20% of undergraduates participate.
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We aimed to encourage protest participation without explicitly paying for turnout — directly paying for turnout could potentially generate a set of compliers very different from the typical protest participants we hoped to study.13 To generate a strong first stage without paying directly for turnout, we paid for behavior conditional on turnout: providing us with information that would help us estimate crowd sizes at the protest.14 Specifically, within the online survey, individuals randomly selected to be in the indirect protest incentive treatment group were presented with the following prompt (full text can be found in Online Appendix C.6):

Because many students attend the events of July 1, we are asking a subset of survey participants to help us get a better estimate of the July 1 March attendance. . . . We would like to ask you to participate in this scientific endeavor. This should take only 5 minutes of your time while you are at the March. . . . Once you have uploaded all the information, we will pay you additional HK$350 for your time and effort.

Subjects in the treatment group received an email the night before the July 1, 2017, march with detailed instructions on how to complete the task. In particular, treated subjects would be able to use a secure link to upload the information we requested during the march. Subjects who uploaded all requested information and completed the protest participation reporting module would be eligible to receive the bonus payment, and we consider them to have taken up the treatment. The full protest participation reporting module can be found in Online Appendix C.7.

deckgibson posted:

global times guy at the airport in an i love cops t shirt is pretty much the same thing as andy ngo going to an antifa protest and accosting people on camera, what a surprise that the same outcome happened

honestly I bet some MSS dudes saw that and were like “hey let’s do that but in HK”

Frijolero posted:

Looks like Reuters changed their headline to this article. Standard practice!

https://twitter.com/JChengWSJ/status/1170592856722919425?s=09

Lady Galaga posted:

tino posted:

Are you guys following the news? The fuel between Li Ka Shing and CCP is surfacing. CCP is pretty much one People's Daily article away from calling him the black hand behind the students.

Who cares about the casinos, properly developers are where the moneys at.

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Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing hits back at ‘unwarranted’ accusations he condones crime and caused city’s housing crisis
South China Morning Post
Kimmy Chung
13 September 2019

Tycoon Li Ka-shing has hit back at an “unwarranted” attack from Beijing’s political and legal affairs commission over his comments on Hong Kong’s ongoing anti-government protests.

An article published on Thursday in an official WeChat account of the party department accused the 91-year-old billionaire of condoning crime and causing the city’s housing crisis.

Li had urged those in power to “provide a way out” for the young demonstrators, describing them as the “masters of our future”. He said the protesters should consider the city’s overall interests too.

He also said that on political issues, justice might have to be tempered with mercy.

The commentary seized on his phrase “provide a way out”, and said showing leniency towards those who had broken the law was “nothing more than condoning crime”.

“This is not about thinking about Hong Kong, but watching Hong Kong slip into the abyss,” it said.

It also suggested that Li, as a major developer in Hong Kong, should be the one providing “a way out” for Hongkongers, as the city’s housing woes were believed to be a major deep-rooted cause of increasingly violent protests now in their fourth month.

The tycoon responded in a statement issued through his Li Ka Shing Foundation, saying it was regrettable that his remarks had been misinterpreted, adding that he had been “accustomed to unwarranted accusations for many years”.

“But the most important thing is, tolerance does not mean connivance and disregarding any legal procedures,” it said.

Li emphasised that he was opposed to any violence and hoped all parties would not “incite conflict”, but make room instead to cool down and initiate dialogue in Hong Kong.

The commentary also focused on Li’s role as a major developer in a city gripped by severe housing shortages and some of the highest property prices in the world.

It quoted angry online comments, including one asking: “Why doesn’t Li’s family give people a way out when Hong Kong citizens fail to pay the mortgage on your homes?”

It quoted another who said: “Why doesn’t Li’s family offer discounts to the ‘masters of our future’ for their housing? That would be more effective to stabilise Hong Kong’s situation!”

The commentary argued that skyrocketing housing prices were “undoubtedly” one of the key causes of the ongoing unrest.

“Many young people in Hong Kong have vented their dissatisfaction and even anger to the government over the expensive home prices and high rents,” it said. “But they have made a mistake on the target. Who is benefiting from the skyrocketing home prices? The answer is not difficult to guess.”

The article came a day after the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong placed a front-page advertisement in a local newspaper urging the city’s embattled government to invoke the Lands Resumption Ordinance to take back idle rural land held by developers and use it to ease the housing shortage.

The commentary concluded by asking whether Li had read the advert, saying: “Will developers like Li, who make money by hoarding land, provide ‘a way out’ for Hong Kong citizens? And for Hong Kong’s future?”

Separately, Harbour Grand Hotel, owned by Li's family, issued a statement on Friday dismissing rumours that its restaurant was reserved for protesters.

A spokesman said its popular restaurant had a current promotion and the dinner buffet was fully booked, but there was no screening of customers.

In a recording that has been circulating online, a customer suggested that the restaurant had reserved bookings for protesters as she could not get a table for the rest of the month.

The hotel spokesman said it was still taking reservations for some morning and lunchtime slots.

Modest Mao posted:

Their situation is bad and instead of radicalizing them western leftists just scold them and allow a big window for CIA lol

Posted from my iPhone

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9:55 a.m. ET, October 24, 2019
China censors CNN's coverage of truck deaths in the UK
From CNN's Lily Lee

Chinese censors on Thursday cut off CNN's coverage of the deaths of 39 Chinese nationals found in a truck in England the day before.

It is not uncommon for China to censor negative or sensitive stories covered by international broadcasters.

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WORLD NEWS
OCTOBER 26, 2019 / 3:18 AM / UPDATED 28 MINUTES AGO
Most of 39 UK truck victims were likely from Vietnam: priest

NGHE AN, Vietnam (Reuters) - Most of the 39 people found dead in the back of a truck near London were likely from Vietnam, a community leader from the rural, rice-growing community where many of the victims are believed to have come from said on Saturday.

The bodies were discovered on Wednesday after emergency services were alerted to people in a truck container on an industrial site in Grays, about 32km (20 miles) east of central London.

Police said initially they believed the dead were Chinese but Beijing said the nationalities had not yet been confirmed. Chinese and Vietnamese officials are now both working closely with British police, their respective embassies have said.
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Police in the county of Essex declined to elaborate as to how they first identified the dead as Chinese, but said they would not give any more details about the identities or nationalities of the victims until the formal identification process had taken place.

Tom Smykowski posted:

2 dudes chillin in Syria ain't an active presence

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Since 2013, thousands of Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority from western China, have traveled to Syria to train with the Uighur militant group Turkistan Islamic Party and fight alongside al-Qaida, playing key roles in several battles. Syrian President Bashar Assad’s troops are now clashing with Uighur fighters as the six-year conflict nears its endgame.
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Uighur activists and Syrian and Chinese officials estimate that at least 5,000 Uighurs have gone to Syria to fight — though many have since left. Among those, several hundred have joined the Islamic State, according to former fighters and Syrian officials.

As Uighurs streamed out of China, militant leaders have seized upon China’s treatment of Muslims as a recruiting tactic. The Islamic State, for instance, regularly publishes Uighur-language editions of its radio bulletins and magazines, while the Turkistan Islamic Party has been releasing videos on a near-weekly basis, said Rita Katz, director of the SITE Intelligence monitoring group.

“How can those who are imprisoned due to their faith be freed? How can they be saved from this humiliation?” a masked Uighur fighter says in a Turkestan Islamic Party video released last year. “Words from our mouths won’t help, but jihad for Allah will.”
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From Istanbul, several of the former fighters described taking buses or being driven to the border region of Hatay, where they would cross on foot at night through lightly guarded hills. After a three-hour hike into Syria, cars waited in a forest clearing to whisk them to separate camps dotting the country’s north. One fighter said he simply drove in, unobstructed, on the highway from the Turkish city of Gaziantep.

When the Uighurs arrived in Jisr al-Shughour, a strategic town on the edge of Assad’s stronghold of Latakia region, men with families, like Ali, moved into a ruined neighborhood of single-story brick homes where 150 families stayed. Single men lived together in larger apartment buildings.

The men undertook three-month training sessions in the use of Soviet AKM rifles, shoulder-mounted rocket-propelled grenade launchers, physical conditioning and mapping.

At the beginning of the course, the trainers showed off their prized cache of captured American M-16s and German G3 rifles, but each fighter received a battered AKM and cheap Chinese ammunition. Boys as young as 12 and 13 — mostly orphans — were taken to a separate camp for religious classes and physical training.

Two fighters said they received boxes of food from IHH, a Turkish Islamic charity group, that included rice, flour, meat and even fish imported from Thailand. One of the fighters said the food supplies were labeled with the foreign fighting group they were being shipped to — for example, “Turkistanis (Uighurs) or Uzbeks.”

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China arrested nine Muslim Uighurs and 10 Turkish nationals in November over a fake passport plot, state media report.

The Global Times said the Turks gave illegal passports to the Uighurs, who attempted to leave China.

Some of the Uighurs' phones contained "terrorist" material, the paper said, and several confessed they were heading for Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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The Turkish embassy in Beijing and the police in Shanghai would not verify the latest story and it was not immediately clear why the information had just emerged.

But the Global Times said the passport-selling scheme had been in progress for months.

Each person paid 60,000 yuan (£6,380; $9,680) for forged and altered passports provided to them by the Turks, who had entered China legally, it said.

One of the Uighurs arrested was a known terror suspect who had "on several occasions in the past broadcast transmissions that fanned ethnic hatred and discrimination in Xinjiang", the paper said.

whatever7 posted:

See this is where I disagree. What China doesn't allow, is not religion, is a blend of religion that pledge royal to foreign states. The water down version of islam the Uyghurs used to practiced was okay. But authentic Sunni Islam is not okay. This is what CCP trying to brain wash away.

Also Uyghurs got targets because their local culture hasn't "submitted to Han dominace" the same way other minorities do, or the native Indians do to the Whites in the US. Maybe you can call it racism. But the motivation is not racism.

Bloodnose posted:

Whew. There's that Erdogan bad I was talking about.

Some Guy TT posted:

wait let me get this straight hong kong poland hungary italy is way below the replacement rate and yet the protestors are mad that too many young chinese people immigrants are allowed to move in

sincx posted:

https://twitter.com/SCMPHongKong/status/1194828788481183745

It seems that Carrie Lam's alma mater needs to strengthen its civil engineering curriculum.

comedyblissoption posted:

actually it was the yellow vest protests in france that caused the hong kong protests

at least if you want to use temporal ordering as a causation