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There's no formal media report on this, the stories that hit Chinese internet headlines are anecdotal and seem quite sensationalized.

The stories alledge that he argued with his Indian boss (which commonly features in all kinds of Chinese stories about Sillicon Valley tech companies), was denied request to change group, an emergency project was assigned to him, attempts to extend the dealine failed, the fear of being fired and family visas revoked drove him to that tragedy.

The story went viral in China, played on his past of being local National Exam champion from modest upbringing, and the popular notion of Chinese being coolies in SV and widely discriminated in the US.

Hong Kong is important coz it's a business and financial center, people around the world care about their money, and the lingering hope of American political designs on China.

https://www.heritage.org/report/the-collapse-clintons-china-...

Re:Dealing with China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost on Thursday October 10, 2019 @01:05AM (#21211085)
> Clinton began his term believing that trade sanctions could pressure China to improve human rights conditions. But after a year of debilitating debate, he was forced to reverse his policy of link- ing trade to human rights. >He was right to do so. By continuing to grant MFN to China, Clinton will help advance the $38 billion trading relationship which the U.S. now enjoys with the world's fastest growing economy. Moreover, by increasing prosperity in China through greater trade, the U.S. can help to create the economic freedoms that are the foundation upon which political freedom will someday emerge.

>Clinton began to end this spectacle of confusion last week when he decided to renew MFN almost with- out condition. Perhaps the most important aspect of his decision is philosophical; the President has now adopted the view that trade relations must be separated from U.S. political goals with China. Moreover, he has endorsed the view that increased U.S.-China trade can promote economic freedoms, which in the long run will spur the growth of political freedoms in China.

>This step alone will help to reassure Asian friends and adversaries that Clinton plans to get a better grip on foreign policy.

>Now that Clinton has reversed his policy, he should move quickly to exact a price-of Beijing's cooperation in two areas of critical concern to the U.S. They are:

* Ending North Korea's nuclear threat...

* Better treatment for Hong Kong and Taiwan... -

https://www.heritage.org/report/the-collapse-clintons-china-.... June 3, 1994

Re:Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @04:09PM (#21207420)
The translation is soft, literally it should be:

>... are filled with indignation and strongly condemn it, also absolutely object to ...

His company has virtually zero market share in China too.
Re:Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @12:45PM (#21204972)
The west should quit pretending that the majority of Chinese hate the CCP.
Re:Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @12:43PM (#21204925)
In the game of pledging allegiance, any resemblance of disloyalty will be crucified.
> Clinton began his term believing that trade sanctions could pressure China to improve human rights conditions. But after a year of debilitating debate, he was forced to reverse his policy of link- ing trade to human rights. >He was right to do so. By continuing to grant MFN to China, Clinton will help advance the $38 billion trading relationship which the U.S. now enjoys with the world's fastest growing economy. Moreover, by increasing prosperity in China through greater trade, the U.S. can help to create the economic freedoms that are the foundation upon which political freedom will someday emerge.

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>Clinton began to end this spectacle of confusion last week when he decided to renew MFN almost with- out condition. Perhaps the most important aspect of his decision is philosophical; the President has now adopted the view that trade relations must be separated from U.S. political goals with China. Moreover, he has endorsed the view that increased U.S.-China trade can promote economic freedoms, which in the long run will spur the growth of political freedoms in China.

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>This step alone will help to reassure Asian friends and adversaries that Clinton plans to get a better grip on foreign policy.

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>Now that Clinton has reversed his policy, he should move quickly to exact a price-of Beijing's cooperation in two areas of critical concern to the U.S. They are:

* Ending North Korea's nuclear threat...

* Better treatment for Hong Kong and Taiwan...

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https://www.heritage.org/report/the-collapse-clintons-china-... June 3, 1994

Re:The China Cultural Clash on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @01:24PM (#21194647)
This is just inevitable, if it's not NBA, it could be any big company who gets caught in it, execs can pretend it will be all good and surely do wish this day comes as late as possible so they can make the most of it.

This is like many things in the current world, vicious cycles, the more unsympathetic ordinary Chinese perceive outside China, the more they will embrace the CCP and strongmen, the more powerful the party will be.

And solution seems don't exist. Xi said "You don't eat the meal then break the wok", So there's only one question:

Who's next?

He's not native speaker.
I assume the GM of the Rockets felt he have to do something after he saw his player in this episode.
Re:China’s Millennials on Monday October 07, 2019 @09:59AM (#21180840)
Instagram is pretty much the reason 99% of the females even scale the GFW.

Generally they hate talking about politics, and actively avoid the "smears" outside the GFW.

That's why the recent pro-China posters are often deemed bots for being inactive or new, they don't like Twitter coz it's full of fake news and smears to them.

He didn't even tweet it, just a like. And the media and west should stop pretending that the people don't like and support the party.
Re:Sanctioned: The Arrest of a Telecom Giant [audio] on Sunday October 06, 2019 @01:29AM (#21170003)
>Canadian police go undercover as Hong Kong protest tensions rise in Richmond, the world’s most-Chinese city outside Asia

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3031486/cana...

LED is especially brutal, there are few that produce chips but everybody can do the assembly.

You can buy a 3W bulb plus shipping for 1 RMB at anytime, including big brands, 1 RMB, that's $0.1399.

It all sounds awesome, just like the records kept for every single step of production in that PCB factory, how-to instructions for every single action, I mean it's eye-opening how many records Japanese factories keep, except it was all useless at least in that case and in its intended purpose. Workers would check if the fake data seem reasonable and do faking blitz before inspections. The factory had only one incident in which it paid damages for high frequency interference issues to a Japanese TV maker.

Rebellious middle school drop-out (no offence) workers earning basic income plus 1.5x overtime wages for 12 hours a day 6 days a week won't take any of that seriously, schedule and cost are always of higher priority.

In the story of iWatch, the two groups of independent contractors use their barely working equipment to do seal test, the equipment is so bad that it returns different results even for a same watch part, but hey we gotta make it work, so their tech guy wrote code to always return results that are up to standards.

The electronics market right now is like fast fashion, people use a thing for 2 years then there are better and shinier things to buy, TVs now come with built-in low-end SoCs that will become obsolete and laggy before long, then hey time to throw it out!

When I was working in a Japanese-owned PCB factory in China, faking/modifing records on the production lines was common as water, to think that this was probably one of the best ones in China or even the world, which supplied for Japanese TVs, DSLRs and iPhones, was eye-opening and somewhat chilling. I don't know if it was the same in Japan tho, people who went there to study said it was awesome and they produced better products using old equipment.

And I just read a story about how testing contractors in Apple's iWatch factories pass basically anything given after the stringen and supervised first batch.

Breaking down just after warranty is perfectly acceptable now, so I guess noboby buys craftsmanship.

Re:Samsung ends mobile phone production in China on Thursday October 03, 2019 @01:58AM (#21144142)
You can pay something like 50 RMB for them to motorbike you through the jungles into Cambodia or Loas (illegally) without any questions asked.

There are also illegal but protected casinos near the Vietnam-China border entry, that only allow in Chinese nationals.

Re:Samsung ends mobile phone production in China on Thursday October 03, 2019 @12:16AM (#21143650)
China can do without Samsung phones, the market is a political stake against Samsung and Korea, but their OLED and RAM are needed there, at least for now.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands the threat of TikTok on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @08:00AM (#21135462)
UGC platforms seem to inevitablly ditch grassroots in the end, how many grassroots do you see on youtube now?

I think the fast nature of Tiktok is driving it much faster to that same end, I've seen plenty of widespread Tiktok fake videos that were created with the sole purpose of getting the most views, like those fix things with ramen pack and glue.

Cheap labor abound.
Re:Life in China Is Getting Harder With High Prices on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @03:12AM (#21057351)
>I'd rather go back to poverty than live under a dystopian surveillance dictatorship.

Unfortunately there are too many people on earth who have been trapped in poverty for far too long, they will gladly to be like China.

Re:Life in China Is Getting Harder With High Prices on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @03:01AM (#21057302)
To better understand China, you will have to understand that the CCP was nothing but peasant rebels not too long ago, the notion of "the country was built by us" so that anything is our rewards and have to be governed by our progeny, is deep-rooted. And think of the core governning clique as a criminal gang.
The sum is not small at the time, but it's his baby daughter poisoned along with thousands of others. After their initial settlement of around 60k, the story never ended as other cases came into public attention, so the company wanted to end it as it was at the crucial stage of going public, they can be heard at the beginning of the recording saying "Must get him", but nonetheless, the court in the city where the massive company located ruled him guilty.
That's a possibility.

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%83%AD%E5%88%A9

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-05/19/content_294108...

A case of Chinese toxic baby formula, the company contacted the father after having reached a settlement, to offer him another deal, reportedly 500k dollars, the meeting was recorded, used as evidence in extortion lawsuit against him in the company's local court. The father was jialed for 5 years before exoneration.

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