Dave

@SkyNewsAust The modus operandi for Sky “News” is for one of its columnists to say something outrageous about the ALP, and for these to then be casually reported as “news”. Totally partisan, totally dishonest behaviour as usual by the foreign-controlled Murdoch media. #MurdochGutterMedia

@thecfhk @RSF_inter Wouldn’t be better and more meaningful, on World Press Freedom Day, to condemn Israel for killing more than 260 journalists and media workers since 7 October 2023, and the murderous, genocidal U.S. regime for condoning such evil behavior?

We mark #WorldPressFreedomDay by demanding the immediate release of eight jailed journalists in #HongKong. Jailed for doing their jobs. Hong Kong’s #PressFreedom has collapsed, now ranked 140th in @RSF_inter’s annual ranking, down from 18th just 20 years ago. #Journalismisnotacrime

@ShiftingSands2 @D162Michele If you believe it was the UK’s expertise that turned HK into a major global port and financial sector, then how do you explain the lack of progress and development in Gibraltar and the Falklands? It was the proximity to China and the Chinese that made the difference in HK.

@D162Michele Well, The UK took control of a relatively small set of fishing villages and turned this into a major global port and financial sector, then handed it over. How have things gone since then?

I’m pretty sure the Brits did exactly that in China with Hong Kong.

@ShiftingSands2 @basq0x @D162Michele Based on the fact that there was no democracy for the Chinese majority before the handover, I’d say democracy in Hong Kong today is clearly stronger since 1997.

@basq0x @D162Michele Is democracy in Hong Kong stronger or weaker since the handover?

@RLHeinrichs I know these Taco 🌮🐔🤡 Trump sanctions are a dime-a-dozen but are they even legal under international law?!

Surprise surprise China prohibits companies from honoring U.S. sanctions and directs them to keep doing business with Iran.

@ShiftingSands2 @fhcluk @basq0x @D162Michele Good excuse, but the lack of democratic elections during colonial rule was a feature of ALL British colonies and not just HK. So the need to cater to the long term relationship is just a lame excuse and not a valid reason for not holding any elections in the lead up to 1997.

@tencentdave @fhcluk @basq0x @D162Michele Consider the need to cater to the relationship with China long term, the approaching handover, and CCP preferences in terms of what it would take over, which were expressed well before 1997. Why were there huge protests there?

@ShiftingSands2 @fhcluk @basq0x @D162Michele Perhaps the “huge” “protests” had something to do with the large CIA presence in the city, you think? Those were just failed regime change operations. Why was the US Consulate in HK so large and why did the number of consulate staff shrink after the NSL laws were enacted?

@ShiftingSands2 @fhcluk @basq0x @D162Michele “It was getting there”. The British ruled Hong Kong with an iron fist for 156 years but suddenly decided that democracy was a great idea just as they were about to leave. Let’s face it, “democracy” was their poison pill for the Chinese government to swallow post-handover.

@fhcluk @basq0x @D162Michele It was getting there by 1995. We know what the Brits were cautious as the CCP loomed before 1997. We know what’s happened since.

@fhcluk @ShiftingSands2 @basq0x @D162Michele And being governor of Hong Kong wasn’t even his preferred job. He was parachuted into the role having lost his seat in the UK elections.

@ShiftingSands2 @basq0x @D162Michele You are joking. Chris Patten was airdropped as the last governor. He had absolute power. He could decree laws. There was nothing democratic about it.

@ABerliano69578 @shetlerjones Yes precisely. The Taiwan question is for the 1.4 billion Chinese people to resolve, not the USA or UK and certainly not for a “research analyst” called Philip Shetler-Jones to do so.

@shetlerjones @tencentdave The US says Taiwan is PART of China.

Very interesting. The reason foreigners don’t believe PRC claims that the it won’t kill Chinese people is we saw it happen in 1989. CCP just calls them criminal or separatist or insurrectionist then PLA has license to murder them.

@shetlerjones Stick to the point? Why? Your argument falls apart when context is considered.

@tencentdave Stick to the point, which is Taiwan. If you want to make a relative comparison, it should be for Taiwan people to compare how humane the CCP would be in comparison with their current government. Since democratisation in the ‘80s, the government of Taiwan has not killed them.

@JeanGenie19 “Incident” is code-word by western propagandists for the “massacre” that never happened. In any case the students were protesting for a purer form of communism before the movement was hijacked by the CIA and turned into a failed colour revolution.

@tencentdave Many thousands of students and workers stayed for about 7 weeks (roughly 50 days) in and around Tiananmen Square after the death of Hu Yaobang in silent protest and you don't call it an "incident"?

The arrogant Financial Times was caught LYING about China's poverty alleviation campaign. FT visited rural Guizhou where they claimed the campaign had failed. Thankfully news outlet Sinical visited the same woman FT interviewed to fact check their story. The woman told Sinical that FT's "journalists" had been extremely dishonest and unethical. They didn't identify themselves as journalists and they didn't tell her they worked for the Financial Times. The elderly woman is living a comfortable life, and this is what her house looks like. Thank you Sinical for holding dishonest Western journalists accountable!

@shetlerjones You can take the absolute high road in which case what you claim will be true for ALL countries. Or you can take the relative view, wherein it is clear that the Chinese administration is more humane than the genocidal U.S. regime - the so-called leader of the free world.

@tencentdave Thanks for providing yet another example of why the claim ’Chinese won’t kill Chinese’ is obviously false.

@Canadian87_ @business No, but it’s completely clear that you’re stupid.

@tencentdave @business Is it actually possible that you are that naive? Poor China???

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will use a speech in Vietnam to lay out her vision for the Indo-Pacific, as she seeks to bolster ties across the region in a move that could counter an increasingly assertive China bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@JeanGenie19 @OzmunC There wasn’t even an “incident” in Tiananmen, get it? The crowd was dispersed peacefully, as confirmed by diplomatic cables from the U.S. embassy.

@tencentdave @OzmunC That's why i said "incident" and not "massacre", get it?

@CraneJoel71973 @ChuckGrassley That so-called Chinese national married to Mitch just happens to be a member of Trump’s first cabinet. But you knew that, right?!

@ChuckGrassley Did your buddy Mitch McConnell tell you that, pretty sure he is married to a Chinese national.

China will do whatever it takes 2overtake the US incl infiltrating American AI companies 2steal our cutting edge tech+ideas   Sen Banks&I wrote to 9 AI companies 2ensure they can defend against Chinese espionage+manage insider threats+notify US govt in the event of a breach

@JeanGenie19 @OzmunC abc.net.au/news/2021-06-0…

@JeanGenie19 @OzmunC There was no incident in Tiananmen. The story that 10,000students were killed in the square, their bodies turned to pulp by tanks and then incinerated by flame-throwers, turns out to be misinformation emanating from the British ambassador to China himself.

@AbediMonir @ShangguanJiewen Those islands in the South China Sea? Those ones that belong to China? So China can’t build military bases in their own soil, while the US regime can?

@ShangguanJiewen Because the U.S. is not an occupying force dumb ass. It’s more for protecting You CCP whore. Have you checked what they are doing in South China Sea. Retard.

US has 800 military bases on foreign soil. China has 1. The morons at The Diplomat. 👇

@xraytedlife @ShangguanJiewen So are the Chinese bases. The Chinese do not see any need to have any more overseas bases than they already have. They have never been expansionist unlike the fucking American regime.

@ShangguanJiewen The US bases are there with the permission of the host nations. That so many nations agree to host US bases while so few allow Chinese bases also says a lot what governments think. And they know better than you or me morons.