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"The low level of reported sexual assaults in Hong Kong raises questions about how confident women are to report."
Many people are saying this!
Donโt think theyโre even that weird, ontologically speaking. Heaps of sweet sandwiches in the West, with strawberries and cream a favourite filling (e.g. iced buns, strawberry & cream fingers, Victoria sponge, scones). Not exactly the same but, since bread tends to be sweeter here, not so different.
Taiwan famously democratised by gunpoint when it was a treaty ally of the US throughout the 50s-70s and not after it was diplomatically abandoned by Washington
because when people from there talk to them and tell them it's not their socialist utopia, they say we are "westernised liberals", traitors, or whatever
#5: Kaiju No. 8 Season 2
After its very strong start in S1, Kaiju No. 8's 2nd season was a big letdown. Instead of leaning into the things that made the story stand out, we're introduced to an ever-widening cast of flat side-characters and uninteresting villains. Not bad but it could've been great.
Drawing fortunes for HK in the new year, Heung Yee Kuk chair Kenneth Lau says we must remain vigilant in peacetime and that the governmentโs Northern Metropolis and โmega eventโ economy will bring huge benefits.
Didnโt someone say religion and politics had nothing to do with each other in China? ๐ค
Imagine thinking this generic garbage looks better than even a pic taken by a non-photographer (me) on a lousy day.
Literal mountains of slop
Tired: Home Kong
Wired: Mong Kong
If weapon sales to Taiwan are openly on the table for US-China talks, then we are truly entering a new era of uncertainty.
Even just Trump saying this out loud is trouble for the Lai administration and cannon fodder for American skepticism here in Taiwan.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Guessing the whole pantheon of Taoist gods/folk deities falls under โother religionsโ and that most people reporting as Buddhists and โreligiously unaffiliatedโ also participate in these traditions to some extent, so effectively 94% of folks fall somewhere on the ไธๆ spectrum (i.e. not very diverse).
You can hate the CIA and MI6 all you want. But you really canโt hate a plan where the CIA, MI6, HK police, HK triad, movie stars, pop stars, ordinary people all worked together to smuggle survivors of the Tiananmen massacre out of China
#8: Unruly by David Mitchell
As an inveterate Peep Show fan, the prospect of hearing Mark Corrigan rant about the kings and queens of England was impossible to ignore. โBusiness Secrets of the Plantagenetsโ this is not but sometimes it did genuinely feel like the author was slipping into character.
The Sino-American convergence we can all get behind
No one is safe from AI history slop
#4: The Handmaiden
I really wanted to like this film for its story and the period setting, but ultimately found it unnecessarily long and gratuitous. Somehow, Drive My Carโs quiet 3-hr-long character study felt shorter than The Handmaidenโs 2.5 hrs of constant seggs, plot twists, and time jumps ๐คท
I donโt agree with it personally but my point was about the pointlessness of transposing US left-right dynamics over very local politics in very different places.
For example, the โleftโ in HK is associated with an authoritarian, pro-capital, socially conservative government โ it doesnโt translate.
Literally no where in my post did I say any of that but congrats on making something up to get mad about
Did anyone say that?
Not Japan related but yโday I was reminded of how infuriating this is when I saw an American leftist posting about how Jimmy Lai got what was coming to him because heโs a right-wing Trumpist. I donโt get this fixation with applying a US lens to politics everywhere like weโre just NPCs in their game.
Certainly finished that one knowing less than when I started
pretty incredible, making it sound like a guy who owned a newspaper was a serial killer with a fridge full of human heads
Mangling your body as a status symbol in a mania that all started because of an emperorโs disturbing obsession?
Itโs giving American foot binding.
Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has was sentenced to 20 years in jail on Monday following his conviction on foreign collusion and sedition charges. Full story: buff.ly/6MkP1zn
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Not usually of the school that authoritarian governments time their worst deeds to coincide with US holidays/major events โ it only feeds Americansโ main character syndrome โ but the extent that the Super Bowl is drowning this news out even on my feed is admittedly tickling my conspiratorial brain.
"On Thursday, state broadcaster CGTN reported that 'Dalai Lama' appeared at least 169 times in the Epstein files and mentioned an email in which an unknown sender told Epstein he was considering going to an event the Dalai Lama was set to attend."
Did they mention "Xi Jinping" appearing 134 times?
Pro-democracy media magnate Jimmy Lai, 76, has been sentenced to 20 years for national security crimes.
Since the day he was arrested, everyone has been predicting the government will make sure he dies behind bars. Everyone was, of course, right โ but itโs still, to say the very least, a gut punch.