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Re:E Pur Si Muove by simonbyrne on Thursday December 14, 2017 @06:25PM (#15928311)
Also, perhaps the authors status in San Francisco means that any comments he makes will be more likely to get attention (and hence criticism) than in China.
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Re:E Pur Si Muove by pavlov on Thursday December 14, 2017 @06:58PM (#15928563)
In China, the author is a visiting foreign multimillionaire — the type of person whose conversation will be enthusiastically received no matter the content.
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Re:E Pur Si Muove by squarefoot on Friday December 15, 2017 @08:03AM (#15931455)
That would likely be the reaction in whatever country he was visiting. Being multimillionaire and foreign makes the difference.

Contracts with government == money+jobs == votes -> power.

Contracts with politician owned company == money -> power.

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