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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: 0.415s | 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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1. hamilyon2 ◴[08 Oct 19 04:37 UTC] No.21188814[source]▶
As far as I remember, Germany in 30-s was underdog, deprived of colonies, territories, with failing economy and zero weight in international relations.

China is actual, undisputed world leader. They don't tolerate other nations telling them what to do on their land, and like economical expansion to neighbor states. They can afford it.

I don't see parallels.

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2. scythe ◴[08 Oct 19 05:21 UTC] No.21189011[source]▶
Germany in the prewar period had the second-largest domestic economy in the world:

http://www.zuljan.info/articles/0302wwiigdp.html

China is still second in the world by nominal GDP, although they're closer to us now than Germany was then.