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This makes so much sense. It's like progressive tax rates for individuals. I suggest more levels between 0-1MM revenue.

You need to read the laws in China where they require any chinese company or individual to hand over data to the chinese government on request, no exception, no lawsuit, period.

I believe Huawei sued and lost.

That is exactly how the world got into this situation in the first place. China covered it up and basically said nothing to see there. And the world believed in them and didn't put on guard against them. Until the disease spread to other countries and they no longer could cover it up. Then they say "hey look you have it too!"

If we can miniaturize nuclear reactors to the point that they can be drop-in replacements for batteries, then we can potentially run our electronics, appliances, machinery, vehicles standalone for decades without refuel/recharge.

There has been critics in Asia on that the ex-Director General (2006-2017) of WHO, Margaret Chan, who was sponsored by China for the position, had been building up influence in the organization for China during her term so WHO would work in China's favour. Its effect is showing this time in how WHO handled this incident. Instead of taking a lead and look into the whether China had handled the pandemic properly upon its onset, WHO just parrot China's official stance, in fear of offending China.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Chan

I don't think you follow the news there. Just because you've only heard it yesterday doesn't make it new. The neighbouring countries have been on guard on the issue. There have been lots of news, leaks and complaints on this issue for the past several weeks. In fact the wet market in Wuhan had been officially "closed" for at least 3 weeks due to the disease. That means the pandemic has been spreading far longer than that.

Now they suddenly started to release updated numbers (due to pressure from their neighbouring countries) and you think it'd only "escalated in a week".

Some people have some weird imagination

* http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202001/01/WS5e0c6a49a310cf3e3...

The Chinese central government has already admitted their officials have been trying to cover it up. The president Xi had made it clear that he would "nail" the officials who are covering it up on the "pillar of shame" and those people will be "criminals of 10 thousand years".

You don't understand how things work in China. It has nothing to do with ethics. You give up free speech so you can make a few bucks in China. But in the long run they will only let their own companies thrive. Those the communist party can control. You will be eaten alive.

My original post is the TLDR.

As for control, intense power struggle is happening at the top right now, between Xi fraction and his opponents. Of course due to the opaque nature of Chinese politics nobody is sure.

Xi wants to be China's most powerful man since Mao but he is very insecure. So he is tightening control of the whole China, including Hong Kong (the extradition bill). It is working in the mainland but in Hong Kong it caused a blowback.

"Short Term Profits and Long Term Death" vs Free Speech

It's not about making a buck. It's nationalism. Check user history.

Yes, I didn't make those things up. They are not all from a single source though. I don't keep a list of everything I have read but here is one (in chinese):

https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E6%9D%8E%E9%94%90_(1917%E5%B...

https://www.voachinese.com/a/voanews-20180413-former-secreta...

It is said (by his acquaintances) that Chairman Xi is not a smart guy ("brain dead" is the word). He only has elementary to junior high level of education. Anything higher (including his "PhD") is fake.

His solution to every problem is fight (power struggle) until all your opponents are down. It may work in China's party politics but if taken to the international level, it fails. You can see this same solution being applied to the handling of Hong Kong.

He also believes that China is invincible because they have this massive supply chain thing which nobody else has.

Measuring Hong Kong's importance for China by its GDP is as useful as measuring your eyes' importance to you by their weight.

It is a grotesque hybrid of Marxism, Maoism and Fascism.

Impressive coordination of public bureaucracies & state owned enterprises.

>Why? I'm honestly bothered by this Cold War mentality...

You should direct this question to China instead.

>What can you do about this?

The congress is doing something potentially quite powerful:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3289

If China doesn't follow WTO and any international laws that go against their benefits, why do you expect this TPP would have any effect on them?

Better not use that $1B to buy Huawei stuff.

Oppo is a chinese company. What are they trying to do with an app like that?

>On the other hand, Japan, South Korea, China and Asian tigers have done well without being open and diverse.

They all make money by selling to the USA.

Because that is HK ISP Association's denouncement.