(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