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Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong

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yungcoder ◴[08 Oct 19 00:27 UTC] No.21187453[source]▶
Between this and the NBA's capitulation to making the Rockets' GM retract his statements on Hong Kong, at what point does appeasement just become acceptance of China's behavior? Sure, from the individual business' perspective they don't want to risk alienating the Chinese government and losing the Chinese market, but if China sees that they can get their way by simply threatening foreign companies then it will just embolden them to push for more concessions down the road. Quite frankly this all stinks of 1930s European appeasement policy and we all know how that turned out.
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notzuck ◴[08 Oct 19 01:12 UTC] No.21187714[source]▶
The appeasement policy was the right thing to do. The UK couldn't win a war in 1938 (no allies, no money, no air defence etc) and the bad taste of WW1 was still in peoples mouths.

The policy did fail because Hitler was going to go to war no matter what but that is only with 20/20 hindsight.

Appeasement wasn't the right policy, it was literally the only policy available to the UK at the time.

I agree that we need to take a hard line with China though, I can't see how this is going to end given their massive increase in military size and technology plus we are all so tied together financially that we could cripple each other long before a shot is fired.

My friends seem to think that war is the only way this will end and I've got a young son so I sincerely hope not.

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1. yungcoder ◴[08 Oct 19 02:02 UTC] No.21187956[source]▶
Well even if having the resources of the largest colonial empire in history wasn't enough to allow the UK to win a war in 1938, what about in 1933? 1934? 1935-37? When the Germans seized the Rhineland in '36 they could have been easily steamrolled by a French-British alliance and that would have been the end of Nazi Germany then and there. Nazi Germany was only able to become the juggernaut it was because of the years of appeasement leading up to that point and I think we can agree by the time they became an apparent threat it was already too late. What I'm saying is if the parallel holds with China today, we are barreling towards 1938 at alarming speed and this time I don't think the world can afford to be wrong again.