Can we please start a cultural movement that forces large corporations to choose between appeasing Chinese censors and looking like fools to the rest of the west or getting banned in China.
Really seems like a win win scenario.
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Really seems like a win win scenario.
Chinese Tencent owns 5 percent of Blizzard, if full owner of Riot Games, 48% of Epic Games, 11.5% of Bluehole (Fortnite and PUBG), 5% of Ubisoft. They are also investor in Discord. https://www.pcgamer.com/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-...
AMC is fully owned by Chinese. The largest movie theater chain in the United States is fully owned by Chinese.
Legendary Entertainment Group is owned by Chinese.
Forbes Media sold majority stake to Chinese company.
I'm tired of the idea that the Western and Chinese markets can both be appeased the middle of the road morality.
What is happening in HK right now is wrong, and the west has fought wars over this very issue.
It's hard to imagine people stopping using Uber, Lyft, Twitter, Snapchat, Fox News just because Saudis are heavily invested.
It's interesting to watch this unfold for someone who isn't entrenched in any of these spheres.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-para...
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-joe-biden-empowered-c...
And these are private companies bought by private investors (ok one could argue it's Chinese government money..), what does that have to do with government deficit?
That’s a tricky one. The “woke” don’t care about all the Saudi money in Uber and WeWork despite that regimes hideous treatment of gays, women, dissidents and so on.
But despite the widespread nationalist zealotry, most ordinary folk still seem to enjoy bootlegging Western media choc full of Western morality. They're not trying to ban it.
Though of course China does have its very own PC police that are encouraged by the government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Ballistic_Missile_Defens...
Read Mao's "On Contradiction".
AMC was majority-owned by China’s Dalian Wanda, but they scaled back from 60% to 38% about a year ago.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amc-dalian-wanda-silver-l...
I also would love to know which wars we (the US, or the Western world) have gone to over those principles (versus e.g. "over oil"), because I can't think of any.
It’ll be interesting if you could talk with him regarding his position for the government, recent issues and long term policy. My bet is he’ll be super supportive and you might be surprised that “greater good” trade off is well accepted
It's possible that that's just normalized for you but it seems jarring when you see someone revering a 'commie'. The programming runs deep on all sides.
Not really scary. It's better for superpowers to have intertwined economies, rather than be isolated. Less incentives for conquest and war.
If there was an actual point in "it's about human rights", the US would come down on Turkey like an anvil on a cartoon character in old animated movies. Instead, the US appears to support Turkey's new expansive invasion of Syria that goes hand in hand with their genocidal desires to annihilate the Kurds. It's never about human rights on the international stage, it's about power.
http://www.rhsansfrontieres.org/en/183-to-see/287-forced-lab...
It could be about hegemony and influence. the NBA and Hollywood having to cater and cave in to official Chinese positions. I think it’d be different than say hoi polloi (public opinion) in China dictating what Hollywood does. One is freedom of speech and opinion the other is government coercion and control.
A few companies and minority ownership stakes does not mean any super power owns the majority of another super power. That's a wide gulf.
Hearthstone is massive in China. Hearthstone has far more players than all other regions combined. The chinese market is what keeps the game alive.
That is the problem here.
I can have a chinese landlord gouging me for west coast rent but can never be a landlord in china.
I don't agree with Trump on pretty much anything except for his stance on Chinese trade.
There is an imbalance that needs to be addressed that is being completely ignored by the progressive candidates.
Not saying it will make me vote for the guy in 2020, but it will be a key issue for many others.
China and what it stands for is the antithesis of those principles.
Our unwillingness to act on what our ancestors viewed as infringements on basic human rights will be the end of the free world.
-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unnao_dead_bodies_row
And many sources mention they did this just because they can’t afford proper cremation.
Another funny picture is Train with many people attached outside, not sure if that’s another convention or custom :)
You can prevent foreigners from buying/owning land/property in US, but that will just lower the value of US dollars held by foreigners significantly and your currency will crash in value.
The foreigners already hold too much US dollars. The ship has sailed. You'll pay either way for enjoying the fruits of cheap foreign labor in the past. It's either devaulation of your currency, or accepting that foreigners will get a piece of US land.