Hong-Kong Protests

daifo said:

When you are completely delusional

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Juan Guido elected as Emperor of Hong Kong

taxiya said:

Another important difference between China and SG is that China from ancient time forbids officials working in their home region. For example the governor of Fujian must not be from Fujian, therefor everyone in the governor office must be able to speak mandarin fluently.

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Note that Singapore is small enough to get away with this, because everyone literally knows everyone else.
If you start spending big, questions will be asked as to where the money came from.

From a practical perspective, we can expect Chinese technology multi-nationals in literally every economic sector to expand globally.

So fluency in Mandarin and the local country language will be a huge advantage for jobs.

AndrewS said:

From a practical perspective, we can expect Chinese technology multi-nationals in literally every economic sector to expand globally.

So fluency in Mandarin and the local country language will be a huge advantage for jobs.

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Maybe twenty years ago proficiency in Mandarin Chinese was 'nice to have' in SEA and Oceania.

Today it is 'necessary to have' - especially if you are ethnic Chinese, because that comes with the natural expectation that you are fluent in your mother language.

dengyeye said:

Maybe twenty years ago proficiency in Mandarin Chinese was 'nice to have' in SEA and Oceania.

Today it is 'necessary to have' - especially if you are ethnic Chinese, because that comes with the natural expectation that you are fluent in your mother language.

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I find the notion in general quite amusing that there are ethnicities that actively dont teach their children their mother tongue so that the children become "integrated" into their host societies...

Its the same with SEA people here in Germany, I know alot of mixed couples where onky German in spoken in the household.

The net favorable impression toward the Chinese central government also hit a new high since 2009. Meanwhile, the net favorability of Hong Kong residents toward countries such as the US, the UK and Japan all dropped. The net favorability for the British government hit the lowest since 1997, and the figure for the US fell to a record low since 2007. Both are negative numbers. Some other data also show prominent changes in the same direction.

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Wow Xi Jinping playing high-level weiqi

The fight is not over, just hidden. IMO, some hong kongers should be sent into the villages for a month to fix their humility

...including Benny Tai Yiu-ting and Joshua Wong Chi-fung pleaded guilty to "conspiracy to subvert state power"

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Oof, that's a paddlin'