http://i.imgur.com/HxdqDKP.jpg
Photoshopped??
― 龜, Sunday, 28 September 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
Oh looks like it's from 2012
― 龜, Sunday, 28 September 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/5eHxznT.jpg
h/t ken c
― 龜, Sunday, 28 September 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
http://www.vox.com/2014/9/28/6856621/hong-kong-protests-clashes-china-explainer
Hard to truly appreciate how bad Max Fisher is until he writes about something close to you
― 龜, Sunday, 28 September 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2688692/china-blocks-instagram-mentions-of-tear-gas-amid-hong-kong-protests.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
x-post- uh, why is Max so bad? I know little about Hong Kong and China I confess.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
He brings all the clarity of someone who headed his high school's Model UN congregation
― 龜, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 14:37 (nine years ago) link
https://time.com/3444164/hong-kongs-protesters-are-fighting-for-their-economic-future/
I think this is a much better overview of the issues at hand fwiw
― 龜, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/china-warns-hong-kong-protesters-of-unimaginable-consequences/2014/10/02/245eb391-e506-4c24-9cdc-f1c62528e6fb_story.html?hpid=z1
Is it gonna get ugly?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 October 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
Probably not - at worst more tear gas and rubber bullets
Really hope the protestors won't try to 'occupy' government buildings as happened in the recent taiwan protests
― 龜, Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
Btw curmudgeon I figure you would know - what's the precedent for occupation of non-public space?
― 龜, Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/09/25/pro-beijing-media-accuses-hong-kong-student-leader-of-u-s-government-ties/
― Mordy, Friday, 3 October 2014 01:46 (nine years ago) link
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/884956.shtml
:)
― dylannn, Thursday, 9 October 2014 02:34 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/02/british-banker-charged-murder-hong-kong
― Chetniks in Šumadija kill a Partisan through heart extraction.jpg (nakhchivan), Sunday, 2 November 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
possibly unfair but anyone who calls their kids rurik probably gives them other problems too
― Chetniks in Šumadija kill a Partisan through heart extraction.jpg (nakhchivan), Sunday, 2 November 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
Saw that - for a city of 7 million people, HK has had a lot of weird and grisly murders
― 龜, Sunday, 2 November 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
if there is any area in the world i would expect to find an "American Psycho style" murderer it is Wan Chai
― een, Sunday, 2 November 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
Otm
― 龜, Monday, 3 November 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
http://japanfocus.org/-Ho_fung-Hung/4207
I'm far from an HK expertSo I found this Interesting
― dylannn, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
Will try to dive into that when I have some head space
― 龜, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/8Md1ODn.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/kQ5YSM9.jpg
lol
― imago, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
a+
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link
http://libcom.org/blog/xulizhi-foxconn-suicide-poetry
― 龜, Thursday, 6 November 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
我来时很好，去时，也很好
― 龜, Thursday, 6 November 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
(Reuters) - A leader of Hong Kong's student protests called on Thursday for a respected intermediary to help arrange a trip to Beijing where the students want to make their case to China's leaders for greater democracy in their city.
Will this be even allowed to happen?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 November 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
Well no - I don't think Beijing would ever agree to that
― 龜, Thursday, 6 November 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
http://www.clb.org.hk/en/content/i-speak-blood-poetry-foxconn-worker-xu-lizhi
― 龜, Monday, 10 November 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/nov/10/japan-shinzo-abe-china-xi-jinping-handshake-video
― milord z (nakhchivan), Monday, 10 November 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
Inscrutable
― 龜, Monday, 10 November 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
lol dont u think its notably frigid even by the standard of these things
― milord z (nakhchivan), Monday, 10 November 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
abe is trying to be concilliatory though, the froideur is from the other side
― milord z (nakhchivan), Monday, 10 November 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
CCP has whipped up anti-Nippon sentiment to such a degree that Xi really had no choice
― 龜, Monday, 10 November 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
abe is far more constricted than xi, between his own nationalist right and the reality of the balance of powerseverything about that is emphasizing japan as a supplicantnot at all inscrutable
http://thediplomat.com/2014/11/ishiharas-stealth-attack-on-the-japanese-constitution/
― milord z (nakhchivan), Monday, 10 November 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/06/world/asia/zhou-yongkang-china-arrests-former-security-chief.html
I guess they finally dropped the hammer - wow
― 龜, Saturday, 6 December 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
Better late than never, I guess.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 December 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
When I saw "drop the hammer" I first thought you were talking about China versus Hong Kong protestors
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 7 December 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HwxAVJx.png
― 龜, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 12:29 (nine years ago) link
bullet train?
― een, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
Yeah - they hope to achieve these times (measure from Beijing, obv) by 2020
― 龜, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
BJ to HK would be amazing - right now it's 24 hours
http://qz.com/208119/china-is-reportedly-thinking-about-building-a-bullet-train-that-reaches-america/
omg
― een, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
only ilx thread on nk is stupid but 2 recent interesting things on border issues from sino-nk:
http://sinonk.com/2015/01/06/low-key-north-korean-soldier-murder-yanbian/+http://sinonk.com/2014/12/31/command-and-conquer-the-co-option-of-market-forces/
― dylannn, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 10:38 (nine years ago) link