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Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong

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1456 points pulisse | 2 comments | 07 Oct 19 16:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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spats1990 ◴[08 Oct 19 01:14 UTC] No.21187719[source]▶
If you think 2019 China is that similar to 1930s Germany you should just come right out and say it, in my opinion. Let that argument stand on its merits.

If you didn't intend a parallel between 1930s Germany and 2019 China, there is, again in my opinion only, probably a better way of making your point.

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yungcoder ◴[08 Oct 19 01:47 UTC] No.21187894[source]▶
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1. tempa1111333 ◴[08 Oct 19 03:06 UTC] No.21188318[source]▶
> Go on any Chinese social media site and the amount of nationalist rhetoric you'll find is quite disturbing

Thank you for pointing this out. The amount of nationalistic remark from some HN commenters is also quite disturbing.

Denial, ad hominem, and cynicism seems to be their strategy. Most China submissions that they don’t like suddenly forum slide like crazy by triggering the flame war detector; downvoting anything they don’t want to hear without merit.

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2. dang ◴[08 Oct 19 05:14 UTC] No.21188980[source]▶
This is the kind of off-topic accusation that both sides hurl at each other, to the precise extent that they feel passionately about the subject, and in clear violation of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. It's toxic and information-free. Please don't.