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George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@Doctor-Phibes said in In China:

If history is anything to go by, I fear this won’t end well.

Yup. I’m thinking the same about Iran.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

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Mik

All things considered, I think it good that China has bigger fish to fry than Taiwan ambitions.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

taiwan_girl

@George-K said in In China:

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The paper the people are holding up are blank. A passive resistance to the government. No one can accuse them of writing bad things.

Mainland china does not have twitter, but on the equivalent "Weibo", there was a hashtag #blankwhitepaper that was going around. That has since been censored and not allowed.

Copper

protests small and large against Zero Covid policies

We could learn from them

Horace

@Copper said in In China:

protests small and large against Zero Covid policies

We could learn from them

One wonders how the American left judges the virtue of those protests. Just kidding, that's like wondering what flounders think about metaphysics.

jon-nyc

Good thread here

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Code Yellow....

jon-nyc

@jon-nyc said in In China:

Good thread here

Oops. Now I’ll add the link.

taiwan_girl

@jon-nyc The question is can President Xi hold the COVID policies long enough for this to happen. He is too far gone into it to gracefully back down now.

To answer my own question - he can hold the COVID policies as long as he wants I think. With the recent 5 year party congress, he has even a more iron grip on the government.

jon-nyc

LuFins Dad

Has anybody told them that the virus escaped from one of their own labs where they were genetically modifying it yet?

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Justin Casseaux stands with the Chinese protestors.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

taiwan_girl

Japan Disney story is selling shirts, coffee cups, etc with Winnie the Pooh holding a blank piece of paper.

Winnie the Pooh character has become somewhat of substitute for President Xi, going back to this satire

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Jolly

Biden say anything yet?

Mik

Why say anything? All three of our largest problems have significant civil unrest. This is a good thing. Don't fuck it up.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Jolly

Realize how close the West came to this? Especially with the vaccine mandates?

Public health vs. Freedom.

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