China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong

Re:China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong by imrehg on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:45PM (#23260831)

Wouldn't be so sure about it, having lived in Taiwan for many years, a lot of my friends there people leaving HK and setting up a new base in Taiwan. The writing is similar (both HK and Taiwan are far from China's simplified Chinese), the spoken language has a lot of commonalities (bunch of dialects in Taiwan that are closer), and the culture & mindset is very close. Not totally a surprise as Taiwan has a lot of dissidents who left China in earlier conflicts, for quite a while back.

So yeah, from personal experience, Hongkongers fit right in coming to Taiwan.

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Re:China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong by bitxbitxbitcoin on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:12PM (#23261287)

Agreed. From what I've seen, Taiwanese people are very welcoming of Hongkongers especially in the current political climate. An example would be that of Lam Wing-kee.[1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52425350

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Re:China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong by z2 on Friday May 22, 2020 @10:43AM (#23272630)

Yes and no on the language argument. Written Chinese, sure, but Taiwan's Fuzhou/Hokchew-based dialects are far from the Cantonese of HK and neighboring Guangdong/_Canton_. These dialects branched apart very early, about 2000 years ago, and saying they are more similar vs mandarin is kind of like saying that French and Spanish are much closer than French and Italian because Basque is closer to French than standard Italian. Most commonalities in pronunciation are due to both dialects preserving some older Chinese pronunciations, but overall pronunciation and vernacular word choice are very, very different.

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