Chinese Democracy

bearfan

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Lovely ... I spent a little time there earlier in the year ... a bit unnerving seeing "no flags, not political speeches, no group gatherings signs all over the place .. even on the Disney park map"

Not really surprising.

http://time.com/4569428/yau-wai-ching-baggio-leung-hong-kong-court-independence/


On Oct. 12, when they were scheduled to give their oaths of office, instead of reciting the ordained pledge Yau and Leung declared their allegiance to the “Hong Kong Nation” and referred to mainland China as Shina, a Japanese term that was used as an epithet during Japan’s invasion of the mainland during World War II and has since been considered highly offensive by Chinese people.

The pair also unfurled banners that read “Hong Kong Is Not China” during their aborted inauguration.

Judge Thomas Au ruled Tuesday that neither Leung nor Yau had “presented any positive case by way of submissions or evidence” that they had meant to comply with the legislature’s regulations governing oaths of office. He also pointed out that the purpose of Hong Kong’s constitution, known as the Basic Law, was to establish the territory as an “inalienable part of the People’s Republic of China.”

Yau said earlier that she was willing to take the oath properly on a second try if it meant she could take her seat.

However, rights lawyer Jonathan Man, who has been advising Leung, told reporters, “The judge accepts the government argument, [which] said their first oath already equals declining to take oath.”

Their actions of Yau and Leung have caused local uproar and provoked the fury of the Chinese state. A well-organized loyalist rally Sunday drew tens of thousands of people, and came just days after Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to crush separatism.

“All activities that intend to divide the country will certainly be firmly opposed by all Chinese people,” Xi said in reported remarks given at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. “We will never allow any one, any organization, any party to split off any tract of territory from China anytime, or in any way.”

There is no word on whether Yau or Leung intend to appeal the court’s ruling. However, Yau insisted that she and Leung had both been democratically elected to the Council. “If the court strips our seats in such a manner, I think everyone knows in their hearts what kind of a society this is,” she told reporters at the High Court’s doorstep after the judgment.

Shortly after the judgment was handed down, Sixtus Leung called on his supporters “to face this with calm” in a Facebook post. Quoting former British prime minister Winston Churchill, Leung said “it is, perhaps the end of the beginning,” adding that “our only option is to fight for our civilization and system till the very end.”
 
This could be an interesting challenge for the new administrations in the relevant powers (UK, USA).
 
Cannot beat fun with censorship .. though this one is funny at least

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ina-reportedly-censors-mockery-of-kim-jong-un

China appears to have censored an insulting nickname for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, blocking it from appearing on popular websites.

The name in question: "Kim Fatty the Third."

The Associated Press reports:

"Searches for the Chinese words 'Jin San Pang' on the search engine Baidu and microblogging platform Weibo returned no results this week.

"The nickname pokes fun at Kim's girth and his status as the third generation of the Kim family to rule the world's only hereditary communist dynasty. It's especially popular among young, irreverent Chinese who tend to look down on their country's would-be ally. ...

" 'Kim Fatty the Third' is such a widely used term in China that it is sometimes suggested by auto-complete algorithms on web portals such as Baidu, China's leading search engine. While searches for 'Jin San Pang' returned no results this week, Baidu left untouched results for other versions of the nickname, such as 'Kim Fat Fat Fat.' "
 
Go easy on Kim Jong Un. Remember the one fat kid in your class? Imagine how hard it is to be the only fat kid in your country.
 
The fat kid in my class did not cut my country off from the outside world, starve people, and kill people on a whim .. so yeah fuck his fat ass :)
 
The fat kid in my class did not cut my country off from the outside world, starve people, and kill people on a whim .. so yeah fuck his fat ass :)
The worst a fat kid did in the US was cut traffic off anyway... boom Chris Christie joke.

But yeah, the younger Kim has hit a new level of Korean asshole, for sure.
 
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