Wow. I gotta say, even though I’d rather be a Murcan living in Murca than a Chinese person living in China, China is certainly looking much more competent, responsible, and friendly to the whole rest of the world right now.
Except Taiwan. If China could stop being such a bitch about Taiwan, maybe we could be friends.
Except Taiwan.
And Hong Kong
And Tibet
And Uyghurs
And Chinese dissidentsI mean that still leaves them way more reasonable than the US.
Taiwan is just one of their territorial squabbles…
Well, it’s emblematic of their bitchy stance over shit that doesn’t belong to them generally. If they ever did change their mind about Taiwan, it is likely that they would be changing their mind about the other squabbles too, like the Chinese-Indian border.
In the same way that Greenland is one of the US’s squabbles.
Correct, that is the same dumb shit. But we talking about China right now.
What way is that?
It’s a fucking stupid claim that holds no merit and they need to leave the other country alone.
Taiwan literally agrees that Taiwan is a part of China… They literally claim to be China
This is equivalent to Ireland having a constitutional claim on the North until the 90’s. Essentially meaningless. Taiwan is an independent country and anyone who says otherwise is China’s bitch IMO. That includes my country.
It’s not. Ireland claimed Northern Ireland, while the UK didn’t claim the Republic of Ireland.
An equivalent would be if Dublin claimed to be the true seat of the UK and claimed Great Britain and Ireland, while London did the same.
Taiwan and a few islands in the province Fujian are ruled by the Government of The Republic of China, exiled in Taipei. The Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR are ruled by The Government of The People’s Republic of China, based in Beijing.
Both governments call themselves “China” and nearly agree on China’s territorial claim, including the South China Sea claims. The territorial disagreement between the ROC and PRC is actually regarding Mongolia - Taipei may not recognise Mongolia’s independence.
The disagreement is “who is China”. They both only agree there can be one China, so reject any notion of a country recognising both. So either you recognise the Republic of China as China, or the People’s Republic of China as China. The majority of countries opt to recognise the People’s Republic because they hold most of China.
So it is fair enough to answer “is Taiwan a part of China?” with “yes.” It’s the position of every country and the United Nations that it is, as well as Taipei itself agreeing that it is in fact, China, which the Province of Taiwan is a part of. The whole reason everyone simply calls it “Taiwan” is to not anger the Mainland by calling the Taipei government by their official name, the Republic of China.
The reason for this is because of the Chinese civil war. Both sides fought, the People’s Liberation Army had a better land army, while the Nationalists had a better navy. Neither side has changed it’s claims.
Now, if Taiwan were to attempt to declare Independence, which it hasn’t as it doesn’t claim to not be a part of China (in their eyes they are just a part of China which isn’t ruled by the Communists) then that would be a different matter. Which is what the People’s Republic of China actually cares about. I believe the PRC government and representatives from Taiwan actually have regular meetings regarding cross-strait relations.
Taiwan is an independent country and anyone who says otherwise is China’s bitch IMO.
So in your opinion, literally every country and Taiwan itself is China’s bitch. Nobody claims Taiwan is a country, Taiwan doesn’t even claim to he a country.
friendly to the whole rest of the world right now.
Yeah, except for the support, drones, troop training, etc. to help invade an European country
The article says S$991 million (Singaporean dollars), which are “only” about 768 million USD.
Imagine a company in the USA capitulating and admitting fault and promising compliance.
Lawsuits, lawsuits for decades!
Trip.com, owner of travel-booking brands Ctrip, Skyscanner and Qunar, said: “We sincerely accept and will fully comply with it, and will strictly follow the regulator’s requirements to systematically implement each rectification measure, ensuring that all measures are carried out effectively.”
That’s one helluva lot of money to be capitulating so completely over. The article doesn’t provide any useful information — such as what their annual revenue is — to help decide how reasonable that judgement actually is. Not saying the company doesn’t deserve a serious smack-down, but that large a hit would be near fatal for all but the largest companies so some context would be nice.
The complete bending over to the government can be read two ways:
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The company execs know they don’t have a leg to stand on - meaning the evidence against them is especially egregious, which makes one wonder just how they managed to getthat out of hand to begin with (let alone how they thought they could get away with it).
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The government’s power is at such an unreasonable level to the point where they can just impose any “fine” they feel like, and the recipients of said fine are too afraid for their lives to stand up to it and question its validity. Without any additional numbers the article should have provided for context, it’s impossible to gauge the likelihood of this.
The reality is that it’s likely a bit of both. While the anticompetitive behavior certainly deserved a significant punishment, it’s impossible to know just how significant this one is with the (lack of) information provided.
My guess is it’s a variation of your second bullet point: trip wants to keep operating in China due to future earning potential, so it’s important for them to stay friendly with the Chinese government.
They’re a Chinese company, $8.9B revenue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trip.com_Group
Thank you for this, but my point was the scant information provided by the article leaves too much to the imagination. If this is the standard quality of their reporting, it’s not a very good source.
Oh man, I thought for the longest time Skyscanner was a small independent project. Didn’t know Trip owns them.
China making an example out of AliExpress Jack Ma is probably leaving a lasting effect
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