OK, my apologies yet again for my bad attempt at tongue-in-cheek, but it's still very interesting to me what's going on over there. That all said, there are many in here who might equate their unrest with what's happening in deep far left camps in our own country. In other words, just a proverbial blip in the screen. Carry on.
Let's hope not, since the end result in Hong Kong is kind of likely to be significant loss of life. barfo
Mainland China's govt is way more conservative than American conservatives imagine...Mao and the Gang of Four in their history have been pretty much discredited in the modern age but they are not afraid to invade Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan etc....we've invaded a few sovereign countries ourselves...if you're looking at revolutions against empires.....our country was formed by those folks...China is a military country...s0ldiers on the streets...like the US during the Kent State shootings....our violent protests y'know.....Taiwan is a democracy.. China like the US has two classes in society...rich and poor. They want to stifle the press.. familiar? If we had any balls we'd vote for Taiwan to rejoin the UN and have an embassy in Washington DC....China has one...Taiwan democracy doesn't....1 billion consumers trumps 23 million I guess
When you see an interview with a Chinese activist, it's not taped in China. You know, because they, uh...
Another case where America is kowtowing (pardon the Chinese term) to China.... https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainmen...-after-it-banned-a-hong-kong-player-1.4632335
I said this in another thread, but this isn't really a scandal. Blizzard is in a partnership with Activision, they're called Acti-Blizz, but 5% of their company is owned by Ten-Cent who is a huge Chinese company and also a huge publisher for Blizzard games in China. This was not a Blizzard decision it just sounds cool for these "news" types to throw it at Blizzard. This came from above anyone of Blizzards employee's heads.
