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The Insect Court posted:First of all, the zaibatsus were mostly dismantled by the US during the postwar occupation. I assume you're referring to keiretsu, which were a postwar phenomenon. You could argue that the banks that they were built on exacerbated the problem by lax lending standards that inflated the asset bubble Keiretsu, yeah. I knew that they'd been taken down but I'd forgotten the names of the current shambling ghouls. Thanks for clearing that up.
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VideoTapir posted:http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.astrill.com%2F There are workarounds: http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgetastrill.com%2F
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feedmegin posted:It kind of was. The Soviet Union collapsed and in the early 90s a whole bunch of American neocon economists and the IMF went over there to show the Russians how to privatise their economy and become a new capitalist paradise where market forces would bring prosperity to all! See this chap, for example - Anyway a key difference between Japan and Germany versus the Soviet Union is while all three empires more or less collapsed, Russia was never occupied or defeated like the other two. If anything present day Russia is what happens when you leave a rump state of a former empire in a power vacuum and then make conditions miserable enough to completely embitter the population. Japan and West Germany were also integrated rather successfully in a economic and political relationship with the US while Russia even during the 90s remained on the margins. Japanese and German people generally were satisfied in the post-war environment, living conditions after the war steadily increased and generally the countries did well while the general experience of Russians in the 1990s was basically similar to the Great Depression. Putin's Russia was a long time coming, and you probably could see it coming from the late 1990s onward. As for China, I don't think they are ready to give up their ambitions yet either especially since a closer relationship with the West isn't going to give them much they don't already have.
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Bloodnose posted:There are workarounds: http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgetastrill.com%2F Oh, good.
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Oct 17, 2015 15:53
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edit: gently caress
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A Malaysian Cantopop artist came to HK for a show and had to sign this before entering the territory.
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Oct 18, 2015 11:30
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Imperialist Dog posted:A Malaysian Cantopop artist came to HK for a show and had to sign this before entering the territory. Im the coffee stain
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Oct 18, 2015 11:43
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Who made him do that? Event company? Malaysian government? HK government? Some angry blue ribbon dude on the street?
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Oct 18, 2015 13:01
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Nm, checking source.
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Oct 18, 2015 14:52
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It was the Hong Kong music company. Afraid of the publicity I guess. http://www.ejinsight.com/201151019-malaysian-rapper-made-to-sign-no-politics-vow-during-hk-visit/
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Oct 19, 2015 05:35
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That sure worked out for them
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Oct 19, 2015 08:43
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Remember when Xi promised to stop Chinese hacking back in September? Surprising nobody that turned out to be a total lie.
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That's one of those things where I'd actually be a little surprised if we didn't break the agreement immediately too tbh.
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Oct 20, 2015 12:52
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I was watching a YouTube review of From Russia with Love (a Bond film) The reviewer, upon reaching the scene with the periscope into the Russian embassy, was outraged and said 'I'm pretty sure that's breaking several international agreements!' No poo poo, he's a spy. He sets off a bomb inside the embassy and teargasses it too in a later scene. Do you think that's legal either?
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Oct 20, 2015 14:20
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point of return posted:That's one of those things where I'd actually be a little surprised if we didn't break the agreement immediately too tbh. What sort of commercial and technological secrets do you think that China has that the US wants? Because this agreement was specifically about attacks against private entities and individuals, not general intelligencework, which the US readily admitted it engages in and didn't demand China not.
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it's because chinese companies can't survive without conducting industrial espionage on a massive scale xi couldn't stop it without causing the country to implode, even if he wanted to
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simplefish posted:The reviewer, upon reaching the scene with the periscope into the Russian embassy, was outraged and said 'I'm pretty sure that's breaking several international agreements!' Espionage is a crime.
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Oct 20, 2015 16:58
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Bloodnose posted:Espionage is a crime. It is also expected of espionage agents and should be expected in a film about espionage agents
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Oct 20, 2015 17:19
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Fojar38 posted:Remember when Xi promised to stop Chinese hacking back in September? Probably wise to withhold judgment. A cybersecurity expert has criticized CrowdStrike's intel as sloppy: quote:[A] 10 year + history of mis-attributing every intellectual property attack that ever happened to the government of China has brought us to the inevitable end result — putting the White House in an uncomfortable diplomatic position with the Chinese government who may very well be keeping its word. ... His post also points to a new Foreign Policy article in which the source "walks back" the claim: quote:[The reporting of the AP, WaPo, etc.] goes a step too far, Dmitri Alperovitch, the co-founder and chief technology officer of CrowdStrike, said Monday. “We are not stating anywhere that the Chinese are violating the agreement,” he told Foreign Policy in an interview. “It is not up to us to draw that conclusion.” ...
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A Chinese tourist has died in Hong Kong a day after being beaten up during a so-called "forced shopping" tour. Apparently a tourist on one of the discounted tours got into a fight with the guide after refusing to buy anything from a vendor. Then another one stepped in, got dragged into an alley and beaten up. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34584235 I was on a couple of tours like this in Turkey, they'd just take you to a leather goods store or something and obviously get kickbacks from any sales made, but there was never any pressure to buy stuff and nobody got beaten up.
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Oct 20, 2015 17:54
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simplefish posted:I was watching a YouTube review of From Russia with Love (a Bond film) Was it Cinema Sins?
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Nope
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simplefish posted:It is also expected of espionage agents and should be expected in a film about espionage agents Espionage is a crime and people who commit crimes are criminals and criminals are bad people and bad people cannot be heroes in films.
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Oct 21, 2015 02:27
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Oct 21, 2015 02:48
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Justice is a strict requirement of Chinese film censorship rules. Anti-heroes are not allowed. All criminals must be punished. There are no gentleman thieves. Bad criminal people go to jail and/or die and good people are good and also China must always have a strong central government.
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Oct 21, 2015 02:53
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Is the blatant China pandering seen in a lot of recent Hollywood releases actually received well in China because if I were Chinese I would find it condescending as gently caress.
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Oct 21, 2015 03:13
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Fojar38 posted:Is the blatant China pandering seen in a lot of recent Hollywood releases actually received well in China because if I were Chinese I would find it condescending as gently caress. I think it's also about getting around the quota on foreign films showing in china.
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Oct 21, 2015 03:18
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Guess
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Fojar38 posted:Is the blatant China pandering seen in a lot of recent Hollywood releases actually received well in China because if I were Chinese I would find it condescending as gently caress. At least in The Martian that was already a plot point in the book and not just written in for Chinese audiences.
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Oct 21, 2015 03:22
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Fojar38 posted:Is the blatant China pandering seen in a lot of recent Hollywood releases actually received well in China because if I were Chinese I would find it condescending as gently caress. *white
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Fojar38 posted:Is the blatant China pandering seen in a lot of recent Hollywood releases actually received well in China because if I were Chinese I would find it condescending as gently caress. They have special Chinese-only scenes for their releases too
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Those of you who have seen Guardians of the Galaxy know that people like to put down Rocket by calling him a "weasel" or a "rodent." Unfortunately, the fact that these are insults was completely lost on those responsible for the translation, and therefore each time were replaced by "small raccoon" - a phase that's much more factual than mean. After doing his best to distract Ronan with a dance off while Rocket puts together the pieces of his broken Hadron Enforcer, Star-Lord insults the war criminal by calling him a "turd blossom." In the Chinese version, this is replaced by "Big Face." While that's certainly not a very nice thing to say to somebody, and I understand that the phrase may not translate directly, it doesn't seem to be on the same level of meaning. In the scene where Gamora halts Star-Lord's sexual advances on Knowhere, the warrior woman tells the hero that she will not succumb to his "pelvic sorcery." The funniness of this phrase is rather lost in the Chinese subtitles, where it's replaced by "rhetoric sorcery," which doesn't quite get the message across. At the very end of the film, Star-Lord and all of his friends have harnessed the power of the Infinity Stone and have truly come together as a team. But when Ronan asks who they are in China, Star-Lord doesn't say, "We’re the Guardians of the Galaxy, bitch," but instead, "We’re the Guardians of the Galaxy, slut." Again, I somewhat get the line of thinking here, but it's also incorrect thinking.
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Tupperwarez posted:You should already know by now that all it takes is vague acknowledgment of something Chinese by a foreign* source for state media and/or Chinese internet to interpret it as the ascendancy of Chinese culture on the global stage. Lol
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In his 11-minute speech, Xi acknowledged that he was addressing the “mother of parliaments”, dating back to the 13th century, but added: “In China, the concept of putting people first and following the rule of law emerged in ancient times.” He noted that one Chinese legal charter went back 2,000 years. And some other choice bits from the article quote:These banners, welcoming the president in carefully arranged sequences of Chinese characters, spelled out messages like “Welcome Big Buddy Xi”. They arrived in large cardboard boxes and were handed out to those waiting, along with smaller flags and T-shirts.
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Oct 21, 2015 07:27
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Bro Dad posted:In his 11-minute speech, Xi acknowledged that he was addressing the “mother of parliaments”, dating back to the 13th century, but added: “In China, the concept of putting people first and following the rule of law emerged in ancient times.” He noted that one Chinese legal charter went back 2,000 years. Yeah if there's one thing that China is way into it's ancient documents that protect people under the rule of law.
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quote:Earlier the heads of state exchanged gifts, with the Queen presenting Xi with a hand-tooled edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets. The Chinese president gave her two CD’s of music by his wife, a celebrated folk singer, Peng Liyuan stay classy china
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Oct 21, 2015 08:53
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Jeoh posted:stay classy china Could be worse. It could have been two CDs of Xi himself singing. 
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Oct 21, 2015 08:57
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Xerxes17 posted:Could be worse. It could have been two CDs of Xi himself singing. 
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Oct 21, 2015 09:38
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Honestly does anybody use CDs anymore. Just give an iTunes card.
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I think it was Obama who gave the queen an iPod loaded with show tunes, so it's just China ripping off the U.S. again!
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