This isn’t the reality distortion field I want to live in.

Tibet exists, Taiwan exists. This is so silly.

> Meanwhile, an app showing the location of Hong Kong police deployments has been barred from the Apple app store.

This is a very weird addition to this article, given that the app was rejected by app review, not banned (it wasn't on the app store in the first place), and was already approved before this article's publication date.

Other countries don’t have a specific department for propaganda. China does.

It's not weird once you realize the hongkong free press is an extremely biased anti-beijing publication

It's pro-human rights and socially liberal. I guess there is a lot of intersection because Beijing systematically oppresses people but the bias isn't explicitly anti-Beijing

I don't think it's unreasonable to say it has a anti-Beijing bias.

/.+News.*/ has an agenda

TSMC and Foxcon are Taiwanese. Hard to believe this would happen. If it’s true - shame on Apple.

Chinese money talks

Even as a native mainlander who sometimes being identified as a paid propagandist, I don’t understand why and I didn’t receive any information from my upstream contact

China likely trying to ease the transition.

The transition? Are you mixing up Taiwan and Hong Kong?

"I’ve validated it with the iOS 13.2 Beta, and it's official: Apple really did remove the Taiwan flag emoji 🇹🇼 from iOS for users with their region set to Hong Kong or Mainland China. This change appeared in 13.1.2"

https://twitter.com/_danielsinclair/status/11806036739671531...

It's the Republic of China flag. It represents the whole of China.

Oh for Pete's sake, what next.

Taiwan and Tibet are part of China, but has a deal to keep the governments mostly separate until a certain date. China has made some efforts to make the changes gradual. There has been some resistance to the changes, but they are largely exaggerated or directed and paid for by the West. The U.S. official behind the murderous Contras in South America now heads a program that's paid at least $29 million to HK terrorists. Having read the CIA documents that instructed the contras to destabilize and overthrow South American states, I have no doubt there is effectively anti-China Contras/terrorists receiving the same or similar instructions and training. China is using it's power to dramatically improve parts of the world that the US has become dependant on exploiting. The West is very interested in creating a barrier between China and the Pacific to limit it's access to trade with the Americas and elsewhere. Thankfully China has many contingency plans for this and Trump's off-putting style of diplomatic relations may lose the US from friends. A better world could emerge with China's leadership, but HK, Taiwan and elsewhere may suffer attacks on civilians from US-backed thugs, and of course damage to infrastructure designed to hurt their economies. America's track record in this has not been great, and I doubt their strategy against China is fought with even more short-comings.

> Taiwan <snip>, but has a deal to keep the governments mostly separate until a certain date.

I only dabble, occasionally, in reading things on the internet related to ROC (Taiwan) and PRC (China), but I've not come across anything supporting the idea there is a certain date for reunification, or that reunification is certain.

There isn't. GP is confusing Taiwan and Tibet for Hong Kong/Macau. TW and Tibet are territories claimed by China whereas HK and Macau are indisputably Chinese cities but under a special arrangement which theoretically should give them more autonomy.

Pure desinformation. Taiwan is and remains an independent country despite the wishes of the Mainland Chinese regime.

Taiwan (ROC) also claims that they are the rightful government of the mainland. So I don't know how you can claim they are independent.

They are two independent countries claiming rights to the same spot of land. It's like any other international disputed territories except here the territories in dispute represents the entirety of the countries.

Just because a country is enclaved into another doesn't mean that it looses its independence as soon as the wrapping country claims it.

The sad part is that no one wants to be part of China. This is like a forced marriage or worst a rape of other people’s liberty. Extremely one sided.