There are so many obstacles, esp that these workers will have no path to citizenship (or probably even PR). More fundamentally it's just not feasible to do big foreign recruitment in the socio-political environment of high unemployment & high nationalism

Lol exactly the conversation I had with my friend at the conference

Interesting. What a weird machine they've made

I mean the little line curving down to the left with two perpendicular lines coming out is not even a shape that exists in Chinese. It's easy to invent plausible make believe characters and this is not it

I don't know but I'm sure it's way down. Definitely the number of Taiwanese living in China had cratered over the past decade+

Shameful behavior!

Spain has open fascists today too! But they haven't captured state power, fingers crossed it stays that way

All I'll say is it's easy to be anti-imperialist when you don't have massive overseas investments or one of the world's most powerful militaries

I've long said I believed Ben Shapiro to be the canary in the coal mine for when the far right begins to explicitly push Jews out of the Republican party. The canary just metaphorically died.

Especially when the two biggest "markets" - the US and China - are actively undermining academic freedom.

Shameful behavior, wish I could say I'm surprised, but I've seen similar things first hand many times.

Yeah and even with new infrastructure, West Kowloon Station, HK-Zhuhai-Macau bridge, etc. are IMO symbolic of the failure of post-97 governance. Spending insane amounts of money for projects of dubious value