Comments on: China withdraws extradition bill that sparked Hong Kong protests

By: Cotour

Cotour — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:38:54 +0000

This is rich.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coming-soon-in-china-social-credit-for-companies-too-11568713871

The Communist Chinese government who steals technology and everything else with abandon will be instituting a corporate monitoring system along with the social rating system for companys that do business within China.

You will be “good”, or else.

Know the game, play the game, win the game. And when America allows China to make all the rules, then China wins the game.

By: wayne

wayne — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:16:55 +0000

People’s Republic of China
> Body Count: 73,237,000 <
1949-Present (57+ years and counting)
"R.J. Rummel originally estimated China's body count between the years of 1949-1987 to be 35,236,000 (Rummel 1994). This excluded 38,000,000 million that died of famine during the Great Leap Forward. After the release of Mao: The Unknown Story, Rummel became convinced that the Chinese government was directly responsible for the famine, thus increasing his original estimate by 38,000,000 (Rummel 2005). 1,000 was added for Tienanmen Square in 1989 (Courtois 1999)."

By: Phill O

Phill O — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 01:23:24 +0000

Here are some insights from a friend, whom I tend to agree with on many issues:

“The world can thank President Trump.

I have no idea what – if anything – was said beyond his public statements that “it would be bad for Beijing to resort to violence”. But those words were enough. The Chinese knew Trump would have to respond to Tiananmen-like incident, and his only practical option would be to sanction (stop) trade with Communist China. That would put them in the same international piranha category as Iran; meaning any company that did business with China would no longer be allowed to do business here.

And following reports of protesters being killed and Trump taking action to cut off trade, it would be enormously popular in the US. It would guarantee Trump’s reelection.

Of course, it’s yet to be seen whether the protesters will leave the streets. But my guess is this will have turned out to be a very important day.”

By: m d mill

m d mill — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 23:33:40 +0000

It does seem that if you stay resolute China will eventually back down, when it is in the wrong.
But that kind of resolution is rare in the world today, especially from liberals who seem to think that when the U.S.(which is always in the wrong) backs down it is some kind of virtue.