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by barkxyz 7y ago
I can't tell you all but among them: - Using the murder in Taiwan as a pretext to introduce the bill when it could easily have been handled ad hoc with Taiwan. - Claiming it was a loophole left over by the British when it was very clea
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by barkxyz 7y ago
Regarding police brutality, I don't think it's fair to dismiss this as "fake news". Amnesty international, for example, have investigated and found plenty of problematic behaviour by the police: https://www.am
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by barkxyz 7y ago
Seems a little bit unfair not to mention the five demands in this context: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/13/what-do-the-ho... If you really want to "interpret" the message of their
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by barkxyz 9y ago
It was the mistakes of a highly centralized government that helped thrust those same people into poverty in the first place. Why should centralism be credited for helping pull them out but not for putting them there in the first place? Mean
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by barkxyz 9y ago
When I referred to "protectionism in general here" I was thinking mostly of its consequences for developing countries during and after their rise to prosperity. I'm afraid my history isn't really good enough to say wheth
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by barkxyz 9y ago
Thanks for the honest and detailed response. It definitely makes it easier to engage with an opposing view :-) Firstly regarding the size of China. I do take the point that this makes administration easier. A counterpoint is that it also ma
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by barkxyz 9y ago
The results? China has not yet achieved the wealth of liberal democracies in the West and taken decades or centuries longer to get there. Moreover, Taiwan, South Korea and (earlier) Japan have enjoyed similar economic booms whilst (or subse