let's be real, if my comment ended at the fist paragraph you would've upvoted and moved on. Multiple comments in this thread belittle hexbear users as children as well, but you don't have as much of negative reaction against that.
snarky know-it-alls that believe that they possess the most advanced political analysis derived almost exclusively from parroting reddit comments which have slowly turned their brains into velveeta
but anyway, enough about Lemmitors.
Hexbears are actually a nice bunch if you read through the comments on the current megathread. They just have very little tolerance for self-satisfied libs that congratulate themselves for thumping the Washington consensus-approved ideologies that most of hexbear graduated from years ago. Even I find it difficult to read lemmy comments because they're legitimately what I would've written as a teenage redditor in the late 2000s.
Yeah that's a silly article. Strange that a supposed "tankie" would post something that pushes the Chinese lab leak conspiracy though, especially from an outlet run by an NYT liberal like Bari Weiss.
Chaak-ming Lau, an assistant professor of linguistics at the Education University of Hong Kong, believes that despite increased use of Mandarin in Hong Kong society, the city is not at risk of losing Cantonese. In Hong Kong’s 2021 census, over 6.3 million people aged 5 and up still have Cantonese as their usual spoken language. The Hong Kong government’s official stance is promoting biliteracy in English and written Chinese, and trilingualism in English, Putonghua, and Cantonese. And in the Ethnologue, the world’s most comprehensive catalog of languages, Cantonese—as part of the Yue Chinese family—has “institutional vitality,” which means communities and institutions use it extensively. “Cantonese is very far from being endangered,” Lau tells TIME.
6.3 million out of 7 million people still use it as their main language. I can see how calling for the "preservation of Cantonese" could be viewed as a separatist dogwhistle. The essay that caught the attention of the government was one that described the future of Hong Kong as one where Cantonese and local culture is all but wiped out by the mainland government in 20 years. One character in the story calls the protagonist who grew up in England "more qualified to be a Hong Konger than any of us" because they were saved from the see see pee mind virus. It's very funny.
If you're only looking at the "immediate action" options it's 4.5% independence vs 1.6% unification
Grouping the camps together, the graph shows 25% vs 8% currently while not too long ago in 2018 it was 20% vs 16%. It's a contentious issue, and opinions wax and wane depending on the diplomatic situation with the only consistency being that the majority of people favor maintaining the status quo. However, I think as more of the older generations die off, much like in South Korea, identification with a cross-border national project will likely diminish.
The DPP (pro-Independence party) polling seems to differ a bit from National Chengchi University's yearly poll where "maintain status quo indefinitely/decide later" were the two most popular selections.
The Divide by Jason Hickel is a good short read on global inequality.
The Making of Global Capitalism by Panitch and Gindin goes into historical detail on the emergence of the modern financial/trade system, but it's fairly academic and not super exciting.
Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis is an account of the famines and mass social murder overseen by colonial governance in the 19th century.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous People's History of the United States is self explanatory.
For books on America's commitment to defending democracy around the world, pick any one of:
It seems similar to the last time an office building caught fire like this in China. The building was fairly fire resistant except for the facade which was made of materials that burn up really fast.
Ha, I knew it! I knew the OP was a Kremlin asset and it wasn't just me grasping for reasons to not engage with an article from a credible mainstream source because it presents an inconvenient reality.
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It's real. The party's own newspaper is reporting on the objections to it during this "soliciting feedback" phase of legislating.
Edit: Actually, it's more of an affiliate of the party's official newspaper.