Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thread™

[BurtReynolds]

Not sure if this is true or not, but send in the tanks just in case

[BurtReynolds]

Is the shit about to go down in Hong Kong?

[bart]

Not sure if the bridges into Hong Kong would support tanks, but in any case it’s going to be tough getting across them with 500k enraged people on the other side.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[Peeps]

made by burt

let me guess, next youll be shocked when someone tells you water is wet?

[McParadigm]

It does increasingly look like Xi might be prepared to turn this into something horrific. I’ve been wondering if the handful of tariff concessions China made this morning were a bit of a negotiation: “we’ll let you go into the election cycle claiming your trade war works, and in exchange the United States government stays quiet about upcoming actions in Hong Kong.”

[BurtReynolds]

This thread title is the worst video game concept ever

I don't feel too good about this one. If anyone has a better suggestion for a thread title, I'm all for it.

[BurtReynolds]

I can't imagine western countries doing much more than issuing a sternly worded letter. The world economy is too interconnected and dependent on Chinese manufacturing to do much more than that, and for some reason we've decided that resisting China is futile. Trump might do something more, but that's because he's crazy. I don't think Hong Kong is enough of an economic force to resist if China really decided to crack down or assimilate them, but maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.

[Bi_3]

I can't imagine western countries doing much more than issuing a sternly worded letter. The world economy is too interconnected and dependent on Chinese manufacturing to do much more than that, and for some reason we've decided that resisting China is futile. Trump might do something more, but that's because he's crazy. I don't think Hong Kong is enough of an economic force to resist if China really decided to crack down or assimilate them, but maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.

I mean, what would we do if Hawaii decided to tell us to take our telescope and fuck off?

[Simple Torture]

I can't imagine western countries doing much more than issuing a sternly worded letter. The world economy is too interconnected and dependent on Chinese manufacturing to do much more than that, and for some reason we've decided that resisting China is futile. Trump might do something more, but that's because he's crazy. I don't think Hong Kong is enough of an economic force to resist if China really decided to crack down or assimilate them, but maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.

I mean, what would we do if Hawaii decided to tell us to take our telescope and fuck off?

Ohana means family.

[Norah]

Hawaii is rightfully a monarchy and will be again.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[BurtReynolds]

The war against the machines has begun

[BurtReynolds]

One of you assholes who give these people money read this and tell me what it says.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wor ... -revealed/

[BurtReynolds]

"Every new technology necessitates a new war."

Marshall McLuhan (1968)

[BurtReynolds]

suck that China cock, NBA

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[Green Habit]

It's absolute horseshit if Morey suffers, professional or otherwise, for that tweet.

[Monkey_Driven]

It's absolute horseshit if Morey suffers, professional or otherwise, for that tweet.

Yup

[Green Habit]

It's absolute horseshit if Morey suffers, professional or otherwise, for that tweet.

Yup

I'm very happy to see that there is bipartisan outrage to this.

The general spirit of the Free Speech Clause being accepted as a wide consensus is one of the better development in American politics in the last 40 years or so.