As Protesters Fill Hong Kong’s Streets, Businesses Are Alarmed, Too

Re:As Protesters Fill Hong Kong’s Streets, Businesses Are Al... by mLuby on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:28PM (#20167759)

Question: why is Taiwan okay with being involved in this bill? It seems strange since this bill is so much more beneficial to China than to Taiwan, and since if/when Taiwan returns to the fold it will likely be subjected to these same tactics. From the BBC:

>The [bill] came after a 19-year-old Hong Kong man allegedly murdered his 20-year-old pregnant girlfriend while they were holidaying in Taiwan together in February last year. The man fled to Hong Kong and could not be extradited to Taiwan because the two do not have an extradition treaty. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48615161

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Re:As Protesters Fill Hong Kong’s Streets, Businesses Are Al... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:33PM (#20167811)

> why is Taiwan okay with being involved in this bill?

Taiwan supports the protesters [1]. Beijing threw Taiwan into the bill as a loose justification.

[1] https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-expresses...

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Re:As Protesters Fill Hong Kong’s Streets, Businesses Are Al... by GuiA on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:33PM (#20167816)

Taiwan is not okay with the bill.

From the article you linked:

”Taiwanese Prime Minister Tsai Ing-wen tweeted that her nation supported the protesters' "demands for freedom".”

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Re:As Protesters Fill Hong Kong’s Streets, Businesses Are Al... by adriantam on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @03:54PM (#20168600)

wow! "Prime minister" in order to avoid the fact that she is President.

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Re:As Protesters Fill Hong Kong’s Streets, Businesses Are Al... by jubwub on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:39PM (#20167863)

Nice trolling. I see the pro prc upvoters have kept you upvoted while he downvoted the other dude with the legit answer

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Re:As Protesters Fill Hong Kong’s Streets, Businesses Are Al... by dang on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:43PM (#20167909)

Actually I only just looked in on this thread. Whatever you saw was users, not mods.

Pro-PRC? Have a look at the hostile media effect: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

Also https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hong%20kong%22%20points%3E3...

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Re:As Protesters Fill Hong Kong’s Streets, Businesses Are Al... by jubwub on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:52PM (#20168013)

Links are legit. Updated. Didn’t mean to be rude

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Re:As Protesters Fill Hong Kong’s Streets, Businesses Are Al... by mLuby on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:58PM (#20168085)

It was a legitimate question not intended as trolling. The other replies gave exactly the kind of information I was hoping for to clear up my confusion.

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