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Re:Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble by wbl on Thursday June 29, 2017 @10:56PM (#14668367)
They can teach us how to use political dissidents as organ donors, suppress protests by disappearing opponents, imprison those who point out corruption, and no doubt many other things alien to our way of life.
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Re:Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble by vkou on Friday June 30, 2017 @02:26AM (#14668925)
The United States isn't far behind in making it illegal to report criminal behaviour. Consider ag-gag laws, consider how whistelblowers get punished.
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Re:Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble by devdoomari on Friday June 30, 2017 @04:03AM (#14669248)
...at least US doesn't make money selling organs :(

I really like the Chinese people, but... their gov. is f*king evil mess against them

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Re:Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble by Cpoll on Friday June 30, 2017 @05:35PM (#14673733)
The US exploits their disenfranchised as well: see the prison system.
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Re:Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble by SkyMarshal on Friday June 30, 2017 @11:11AM (#14671209)
>imprison those who point out corruption,

To be fair, the current Chinese administration (Xi Jinping) identified back in 2012 corruption as one of the greatest threats to the Communist party (rightly so for any government imho) and began an unprecedented campaign to crack down on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-corruption_campaign_under...

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Re:Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble by Steko on Friday June 30, 2017 @06:05PM (#14673839)
Mostly a pretext to crush his political rivals.
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Re:Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble by tesators on Friday June 30, 2017 @02:48AM (#14668994)
Exactly. If China wants to be a first class world power, they need to learn how to manufacture consent like the CIA.

Right now they are having a hard enough time trying to control their citizens. They won't be a superpower until they topple a few democratically elected governments first.

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Re:Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble by narrator on Friday June 30, 2017 @08:10AM (#14670190)
The U.S.A has 6x the per-capita prison population of China though. It's hard for me to understand how China is such an oppressive country and yet the number of people in prison per capita is so low.
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Re:Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble by logicchains on Friday June 30, 2017 @08:29AM (#14670278)
In China you can avoid oppression by not criticising the government. In America, you can avoid oppression by not being poor or black. The former is a lot easier than the latter.
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Re:Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble by refurb on Friday June 30, 2017 @08:33AM (#14670307)
If your only measure of political oppression is prisoners-per-capita, I can see why it's hard to understand.
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Re:Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble by jtolmar on Friday June 30, 2017 @02:11PM (#14672595)
Those things, while terrible, are separable from their economic progress. Unless you believe that using political dissidents as organ donors helps the economy.
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