Comments on: Hong Kong airport reopens as protesters retreat https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/hong-kong-airport-reopens-as-protesters-retreat/ Fri, 16 Aug 2019 03:13:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Andi https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/hong-kong-airport-reopens-as-protesters-retreat/#comment-1069857 Fri, 16 Aug 2019 03:13:33 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=60085#comment-1069857 When the PRC came up with their Hanyu Pinyin romanization system in the 50s, the spelling of their capital in that system became Beijing. I guess the rest of the world just copied them for convenience.

“Peking” still lives on in constructs such as “Peking Duck” (which in Chinese is “Beijing kao ya”)

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/hong-kong-airport-reopens-as-protesters-retreat/#comment-1069814 Thu, 15 Aug 2019 05:31:55 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=60085#comment-1069814 Col Beausabre-
Good stuff!!
[tangent– does everyone remember when it was “Peking?” Always struck me as quintessentially “Orwellian,” ya know?)

“Chinese threaten brutality in Hong Kong”
John Batchelor; Chang/McCotter
8-12-19
https://audioboom.com/posts/7340740-chinese-threaten-brutality-in-hong-kong-gordon-chang-gordongchang-thaddeus-mccotter-thad
(11:20)

]]> By: Col Beausabre https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/hong-kong-airport-reopens-as-protesters-retreat/#comment-1069809 Thu, 15 Aug 2019 04:33:03 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=60085#comment-1069809 “The enemy advances, we withdraw:, the enemy retreats, we advance” – Mao Tse Tung

How could Beijing be upset with such good little Communists?

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