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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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2525 points hownottowrite | 4 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.399s | source
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diveanon ◴[08 Oct 19 10:17 UTC] No.21190558[source]▶
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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nabla9 ◴[08 Oct 19 10:32 UTC] No.21190677[source]▶
How about Chinese owners?

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.

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xenocratus ◴[08 Oct 19 11:09 UTC] No.21190916[source]▶
Matt Stoller has been doing some coverage on just how much control China has built in Western economies. Quite scary.

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-joe-biden-empowered-c...

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megous ◴[08 Oct 19 12:55 UTC] No.21191704[source]▶
It's called trade. US americans send $ to China for cheap goods and manufacturing, Now, Chinese have $ to spend in the US.

Not really scary. It's better for superpowers to have intertwined economies, rather than be isolated. Less incentives for conquest and war.

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1. papreclip ◴[08 Oct 19 16:04 UTC] No.21193739[source]▶
This is conquest. The chinese are gradually accumulating wealth and control in our country. Their laws prohibit foreigners from doing the same in their country.

I can have a chinese landlord gouging me for west coast rent but can never be a landlord in china.

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2. isthisreality ◴[08 Oct 19 17:00 UTC] No.21194360[source]▶
I find it suspicious that silent conquest of this kind is not spoken about more in politics. It's a very real threat to US sovereignty, especially with superpowers like China and Israel.
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3. diveanon ◴[08 Oct 19 18:11 UTC] No.21195202[source]▶
It is spoken of, but it is often dismissed as protectionism.

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.

4. megous ◴[08 Oct 19 22:51 UTC] No.21198141[source]▶
You can't really exploit cheap labor and buy huge amount of cheap stuff and then expect those people to not buy anything back from you. And yeah, they'll not be buying the same kind of crap from you that they're manufacturing and selling to you. So they buy land, companies, anything comparatively valuable to them that they can afford.

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.