Vic Liu

China no. He started the trade war and a potential cold war. We pray every single day for the coming 5 months that Biden would win. At least he's rational.

Totally understandable. It's different ideology or "political philosophy", but this is what China gonna do. By no means government will allow a bad policeman causing such a big national chaos. It's politically, economically and healthily incorrect/cost-ineffiecient and government could correct this like a parent by forcing apology and forcing victim's family accepting compensation and the apology.

In my memory Persian called China "Qin" or sound like "Chin", it's the name of a of very remote ancient dynasty of China around 2000 years ago. Oldest name of all languages I guess.

It's my first time to hear a Bakersfield news for past 10 years. I spent a summer vacation there at 108 degree temperature when I was 16 and feeling weird that once again hearing this city name is because of riot.

@MHSN According to the latest committee conference resolution, there are total 31 Olympic sports and 9 non-Olympic sports, total events/gold medals around 460-470. 31 Olympics sports - no skateboarding and surfing (including sport climbing, karate and softball/baseball ) 9 non-Olympics sports -Wushu, Sepaktakraw, Kurash, Jujitsu, cricket, Board games, Roller skating, Kabaddi and squash I think sports are basically confirmed but events are not totally confirmed yet. source: https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1644381703345691384&wfr=spider&for=pc

I will try searching in Chinese but I guess they might not update anything during pandemic.

Do you mean the list of sports in the Games or how many matches of each sport? I don't quite get it in English.

I can't quite understand the mechanism that US sanctions Hong Kong by treating it as rest part of China, ie more export regulations and raise tariff, generally speaking by hurting Hong Kong's economy. So Hong Kong people become the poorest ones, lost freedom of speech by Beijing and lost jobs/money by Washington. They protest hardly and lose anything they wanted. Eventually Singapore become the winner as they never protest and yell.

I wonder why Trump can make many decisions on his own including some major ones like tax/tariff policy and quitting international memberships? Isn't it supposed to be passed by some procedure?

Since USA quit, China doesn't have to put that much money any longer to gain the position. Less invest, more power.

I saw the live video. I don't think the reporter disobeying the police order. He is quite calm and cooperative during the live. Police ask them to move and they are going to and then he got arrested. I would say it's the police overreacted and CNN is not intentionally playing the racial card.

If it's in China, government will immediately arrest the policemen and make them apologize in public to get forgiveness of victims' family. I also think it's the most effective and efficient solution, why not the government do so? If the policemen proved innocent, they can be released after this issue over.

I wonder what will happen to the policemen involved in the arrest and common people's opinion on the protests/riots? @Olympian1010

No it will not. Because it gain the NOC during colony period and the border still exist. Most western countries are visa free to Hong Kong but not Mainland China. With the same reason, China proposes Macau to become NOC member, but Macau failed to get it during colony period, so it’s very hard after the hand-over. Basically Macau athletes are not capable to win any trials to represent PRC attending Olympics. BTW China always claims Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan affairs are internal affairs, it's not a new saying. The only thing that may changes is USA will raise tax on Hong Kong goods as it "lose" autonomous status and claiming the sanction will help Hong Kong people.

This strategy is very difficult to adopt in democratic country like USA. First, the credibility rating of Africa is very low, the money you lending is very risky of debt default, the taxpayers and opposition party will jump out and yell it's a waste of money and betrayer of people. Second, western countries like playing as "God" and seeing the loan as "God's gift" and expecting receivers following lots of rules and making commitment like democracy reform etc. If Chinese government ask me to vote I would say no to lending money to Africa as I hurt very much as taxpayer, So I expect democratic country would definitely so no.

The strategy is very easy. Lend them money with no interest or just give money for free without political requirements ( human right, corruption inspection blah blah). Africa is very eager to get money to build road and bridge etc, while western world think they are unqualified to get them and incapable to pay back. And then China lend the money and claiming I will not monitor how you use it. I see none of the African country could resist it.

Macau is a model and China wants Hong Kong exactly to be like that. Protesters will eventually give in but not directly give in, still a long show to see.

China wants Hong Kong to be Singapore but Hong Kong protesters want Hong Kong to be Taiwan. It's the main contradiction, so the show will continue and last a long time.

Rarely heard A320 crashing. I saw some media reported it failed landing due to the undercarriage problem and going around, sadly failing landing again due to both engines losing power. Undercarriage problem happens every now and then, usually planed could be forced landing safely (at least not crashing and all dead). I suspect it may caused by misoperation during forced landing, at least partially.

Good news to Gong Li, she almost got the quota before Rabat and Baku both canceled. But she could get it anyway, the continental quota is almost assured.

I think so, the Olympic standing period extended and quotas should be re-competed.

I don't mean to be merciless for Indian or Bengalis. I know the quality of infrastructure is the key to typhoon and west pacific countries are much more experienced. It just reminds me of the so called strongest typhoon landing Japan last year. The media repeated days before it landing and describe how terrible it would be. All food stores in Tokyo are empty after panic buying. It turned out just a heavy rain for one day. The second day is back to normal. These kind of stories just repeat again and again. I was also one of the panic buying guys when I studied in Hong Kong where often disturbed by typhoon and I knew sleeping and watching TV is fine.

Still one day to go for landing, enough time to withdraw if informed and organized well. The wooden shelter would be destroyed for sure, but life should be saved. And this level typhoon appear in west pacific almost every year, so called strongest, but people are getting numbed (for Japan and China).

Is it too over? I mean being cautious is good but isn't it should be accessed weekly or monthly. Eager to start economy is risky but just ignoring it and staying at home too long may cause unrecoverable damage to the economy. It shouldn't be a two extremes battle in my opinion.

Larger economy with large population has bigger bargain power. Enterprise could easily hire low-cost manpower as many poor people exist ( many rich people exist too but not bothering the Macdonald hiring ).