Hong Kong Airport shuts down as protesters take over

Re:Hong Kong Airport shuts down as protesters take over by tictoc on Monday August 12, 2019 @09:55AM (#20675411)

Perhaps slightly unrelated, but do people believe a dictatorship like China can thrive as a first world economy by suppressing people's basic fundamental human rights?

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Re:Hong Kong Airport shuts down as protesters take over by AnimalMuppet on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:52PM (#20678000)

Maybe? It's too early to tell. So far they've survived that way, but they haven't been a first-world economy for very long.

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Re:Hong Kong Airport shuts down as protesters take over by tempeirn on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:49PM (#20677963)

Yes. I actually do. People have been saying communist can’t survive, but look what China has achieved and continues to achieve. It’s scary but saying dictatorships can’t survive dismisses any possible understanding that it might.

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Re:Hong Kong Airport shuts down as protesters take over by staticautomatic on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:34PM (#20680281)

China is not communist under any political scientific definition.

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