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Re:All the international brands that have apologized to China by alpaca128 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @10:09AM (#21463294)
What I find so difficult with this whole topic is finding ways to fight this tendency of companies and other organizations bowing to China. So far I haven't found much except signing a couple petitions and boycotting, but petitions don't seem that helpful and boycotts are basically irrelevant as long as the corporation gains more profits in China than they lose from boycotts.

What I kind of like is referring to China as West Taiwan, but realistically that probably also doesn't do much except anger people from mainland China.

It's hard to watch Tim Cook and others talk about privacy and similar issues on some stage while they cooperate with a government running concen-...uh, "re-education" camps.

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Re:All the international brands that have apologized to China by ncmncm on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @10:04PM (#21470031)
It's hard to watch Tim Cook for a variety of other reasons, such as that Apple is sequestering income outside the US to avoid paying any fair share if taxes, and refusing to to repair millions of bad products they could easily afford to fix.
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Re:All the international brands that have apologized to China by Huycfhct on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @11:57AM (#21464398)
Taiwan is the exiled government of China. Taiwan doesn't call themselves Taiwan but Republic of China. For mainland China I prefer communist occupied China
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Re:All the international brands that have apologized to China by hntddt1 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @02:33PM (#21466182)
Taiwan does call themselves Taiwanese
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Re:All the international brands that have apologized to China by ncmncm on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:59PM (#21470004)
Increasingly many do. Generally, the more anonymous the survey, the larger the proportion is. Apparently there is still official pressure there to pretend to recognize it as a legitimate government in exile.
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