age_of_stone

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by age_of_stone 5y ago
Apparently, the department of defense doesn't need a provocation for them to act.
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by age_of_stone 5y ago
In reality, Russia does have a say over its neighboring countries. So do all superpowers.
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by age_of_stone 5y ago
do you agree that Cuba should be able to join a voluntary pact with USSR and US shouldn't do anything about it?
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by age_of_stone 5y ago
more likely, you were treated as foreigner that no one really wanted to talk about government when you were present.
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
I was surprised to hear that that Winnie the Pooh was banned in China for some ridiculous reason. Then I did my verification. And turns out it is not the truth. baidu is dominant search engine in China. you can see that the search results d
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
I don't think that setting up an enemy is what Chinese government needs to survive after 1979. it might be used to. on the contrary, what they need to survive now is to keep their economy stable and strong to prove/maintain their
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
i'd say 99% Chinese people don't know or don't watch South Park. yes, its popularity is very much overestimated.
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
didn't you see this "as for exact scale, I'd leave that to you. you could easily figure that out as there are ton of such information online"? i encourage you to find out the answer by yourself.
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
"Not being able to say something in public is like not being able to say it at all." buddy, being so cynical is not really helpful for any constructive discussion. not mention that I was telling a fact not argument. even in many d
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
if you don't know or doubt how popular VPN is used in China, it indicates that you know little about modern China. everyone I know uses VPN or know how to use VPN if they need. as for exact scale, I'd leave that to you. you could
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
you are right. but there is bigger question of what information is "correct". no offense, it'd be naive to treat the first result of google result as being correct. we all know there is such a thing called SEO.
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
I watched the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests on China official TV daily when it was broadcast until the end of May 1989. I was a teenager at that time. we talked about it at school. we talked about at home. we talked about it heavily at col
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
how many Chinese people have you ever talked to before you say "most of them are brainwashed"? If more than 1 billion people are brainwashed in the era of Internet, either 1. it is a huge success of Chinese government or 2. it&#x2
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
"The average Chinese person either doesn't know about Tinanmen" I am an average Chinese person but I know it since I was a teenager. I suggest that you don't assume that Chinese people is controlled like puppet, that&#x2
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
don't you think that Fedex is suspicious for diversion to the US of some Huawei packages when US government is targeting Huawei for "national security"? what if a Chinese courier company operating in US diverts some Cisco pac
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
assume if you are a leader of central government and your trusted local government proposes a bill, would you support it or not? can you simply say it's wrong to support?
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
believe or not, people in Xingjing and Tibet used to have more rights than Han Chinese. for example, they were allowed to have more than one children while Han Chinese were strictly not allowed the second child. it's much easier for Ui
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
you can speculate that China government is behind the bill. anyone can. but it's speculation until there is evidence. So far, there isn't such evidence as far as I am aware. In my understanding, China central government favors Hon
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
"Authoritarian regimes are rarely fair and are not particularly interested in the financial well being of the population." if you think Chinese government is authoritarian, then it is an exception coz it does care and try its best
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
China didn't take any actions before the protest. It is Hong Kong government that proposed the new law. just fyi for making a valid cause.
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
either your friend or you is fool.
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by age_of_stone 7y ago
are you sure that you've gone through some critical thinking before saying that?
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by age_of_stone 8y ago
read through the article but can't find any hard evidence pointing to China. It makes me think that blaming China is just an easy way out when western companies got hacked due to their own failures to secure their businesses.
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by age_of_stone 8y ago
1st gen? are you kidding? millions of its international users love it no mention 1 billion domestic users. it's just mostly designed for Chinese users.
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by age_of_stone 8y ago
Huawei would like to participate in "forced" partnership and open their servers to the US government in exchange US market access. But still, it's banned by national security. laughable?
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by age_of_stone 8y ago
you forgot that China would be the biggest consumer market in the world. comparing to cheaper labor, western companies may prefer more market shares.