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The Hong Kong Human Rights & Democracy Act is one of the swiftest-moving bills I've ever heard of, with mostly bipartisan support. At the same time, I'm a little leery of it. Lausan.kh has a few critiques of it. I'm also pretty disgusted by the US rightwing hijacking of the cause, and dismayed to see so many Hong Kongers just welcoming them like rock stars, with the only exception being maybe Steve Bannon.
We'll see how things go.
Deadspin has a post about some of the fallout with the NBA. Interesting because this one has a rather long essay(?) from one of the Chinese former ESPN NBA reporters. In it, he conflates government censorship with the workplace practices of not allowing racism and sexism to run rampant. It's of course, a shallow analysis, because the premise isn't even true! Donald Trump is president! And then also laughably talks about how we're all taught that Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong are separate from China. Joke's on you, dude, because I don't think Macau or Taiwan even registers on most Americans' minds at all, if it was ever discussed in school.
We'll see how things go.
Deadspin has a post about some of the fallout with the NBA. Interesting because this one has a rather long essay(?) from one of the Chinese former ESPN NBA reporters. In it, he conflates government censorship with the workplace practices of not allowing racism and sexism to run rampant. It's of course, a shallow analysis, because the premise isn't even true! Donald Trump is president! And then also laughably talks about how we're all taught that Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong are separate from China. Joke's on you, dude, because I don't think Macau or Taiwan even registers on most Americans' minds at all, if it was ever discussed in school.
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