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Re:Why Japanese Whisky Is So Good and So Hard to Find by umanwizard on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:33PM (#17524943)
Your tone makes it sound like this is something terrible. Why shouldn't Chinese people have just as much right as anyone else to buy things they want, if they have the money for it?
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Re:Why Japanese Whisky Is So Good and So Hard to Find by throwaway123032 on Friday July 13, 2018 @03:05PM (#17525758)
Try to guess why they are called locusts.
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Re:Why Japanese Whisky Is So Good and So Hard to Find by thablackbull on Friday July 13, 2018 @03:40PM (#17526032)
Funnily enough I was just reading, locust is apparently a reference to the evils of capitalism. From Bloomberg [1],

> Within hours of Heinrich Hiesinger stepping down as ThyssenKrupp AG chief executive last week amid pressure from activist investors, the talk turned to “locusts,” Germany’s catch-all term for the evils of Anglo-Saxon capitalism.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-10/hedge-fun...

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Re:Why Japanese Whisky Is So Good and So Hard to Find by throwaway123032 on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:13PM (#17526295)
It's more a reference to what is going on in HK (infamous ads from 2012...) and nearby countries. Baby formula is one example or straining the overall health care.
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