China Crisis

[VladimirIlyich]

On 16/06/2020 at 18:49, Red Phoenix said:

Once again proving that governments can be up there with the stupidest bunch of idiots on the planet. Over half a century of problems in the area and they still can't even work out where a fucking border line is supposed to be. You could probably get a bunch of high school kids together that'd work something out in almost no time, but governments have to spend decades fighting and disagreeing, not being able to hack losing a bit of territory for the sake of peace. Muppets.

Kings in a Catholic style,The Borgias.

[Dougie Do'ins]

Hong Kong: Chinese ambassador warns UK over 'interference'

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-53307327

[Anubis]

This is unwelcome news on the back of Big Baby’s intransigence.

 

 

 

[Bjornebye]

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/08/asia/chinese-military-mock-targets-us-aircraft-carrier-warships-intl/index.html

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/09/china/china-aircraft-carrier-type-003-launch-satellite-imagery-intl-hnk/index.html

 

 

 

[Elite]

14 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/08/asia/chinese-military-mock-targets-us-aircraft-carrier-warships-intl/index.html

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/09/china/china-aircraft-carrier-type-003-launch-satellite-imagery-intl-hnk/index.html

 

 

 

Nothing like fear to create impeccable timing.

[Total Longo]

I'm going to see OMD at the Olympia later this month. They're also a local band.  

[Bjornebye]

This isn't looking great

 

Tennis player (Former Wimbledon doubles champion) Peng Shuai accused a former Chinese government politician of sexual assault. She hasn't been seen since and an email that has supposedly come from her saying "everything is fine" and the accusations are not true, she's just resting at home which people are claiming is blag has come out. 

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/17/tennis/peng-shuai-naomi-osaka-intl-hnk/index.html

 

 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

On 10/11/2021 at 08:45, Total Longo said:

I'm going to see OMD at the Olympia later this month. They're also a local band.  

If you live on the Wirral. Great band.

[dockers_strike]

16 minutes ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

If you live on the Wirral. Great band.

Remember seeing them for the first time on The Old Grey Whistle test singing Messages. I was immediately hooked.

[Bjornebye]

https://news.sky.com/story/china-guilty-of-committing-genocide-against-uyghur-people-tribunal-finds-12490720

 

China guilty of committing genocide against Uyghur people, tribunal finds

 

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC stressed there is no evidence of mass killings, but that China's policies in Xinjiang amount to genocide. It comes after China said the UK, Australia, Canada, and the US would "pay the price" for boycotting the Beijing Winter Olympics because of their concerns.

 

A tribunal has found that China is guilty of genocide against the Uyghur people and other minorities in Xinjiang.

 

The tribunal also found China guilty of crimes against humanity, including forced sterilisation, sexual violence, enslavement, torture, and forcible transfer, all beyond reasonable doubt.

 

It comes after China said the UK, Australia, Canada, and the US would "pay the price" for boycotting the Beijing Winter Olympics because of their concerns over human rights abuses.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-59764029

 

A famous statue at the University of Hong Kong marking the Tiananmen Square massacre was removed late on Wednesday.

 

The statue showed piled-up corpses to commemorate the hundreds - possibly thousands - of pro-democracy protesters killed by Chinese authorities in 1989.

 

It was one of the few remaining public memorials in Hong Kong commemorating the incident.

[TheHowieLama]

On 01/06/2020 at 16:44, TheHowieLama said:

It is pretty good but we usually go to China Kitchen.

Getting a Taste of China right now.

[ZonkoVille77]

 

[VladimirIlyich]

On 11/07/2022 at 17:34, TheHowieLama said:

Getting a Taste of China right now.

I assume she's a good looking girl?

[Kepler-186]

Longish thread on China’s property bubble with echoes of the 2008 financial crash.

 

 

[Guest]

Communism is working as well as ever I see

[Anubis]

On 10/08/2022 at 10:26, ZonkoVille77 said:

 

 

 

 

I'd have to video myself walking up to that and saying "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."

 

 

EDIT: So it won't serve or deduct money for dissidents. But you've already got the food. And it doesn't know what you do with the food afterwards. So you could just walk away and eat the food and it hasn't deducted any money from your account. So, free food.

[ZonkoVille77]

4 minutes ago, Anubis said:

 

 

 

I'd have to video myself walking up to that and saying "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."

 

 

EDIT: So it won't serve or deduct money for dissidents. But you've already got the food. And it doesn't know what you do with the food afterwards. So you could just walk away and eat the food and it hasn't deducted any money from your account. So, free food.

 

Walking away with the food without paying for it would immediately flag you as a dissident I reckon? Maybe there's a helpline for those type of issues "Hi, I got free food and I want to pay for it, like a good citizen." 

 

Fuck knows in reality - mad country. But I can't help admire the tech behind it all.