All the international brands that have apologized to China

What I find so difficult with this whole topic is finding ways to fight this tendency of companies and other organizations bowing to China. So far I haven't found much except signing a couple petitions and boycotting, but petitions don't seem that helpful and boycotts are basically irrelevant as long as the corporation gains more profits in China than they lose from boycotts.

What I kind of like is referring to China as West Taiwan, but realistically that probably also doesn't do much except anger people from mainland China.

It's hard to watch Tim Cook and others talk about privacy and similar issues on some stage while they cooperate with a government running concen-...uh, "re-education" camps.

The hypocrisy is ridiculous. Try ordering something off AliExpress/Taobao shipped to HK/Taiwan and you're directed to "international shipping".

In particular, they should change Taiwan's entry in ISO-3166 before scowling at foreign companies for using a standardized country list.

Heh, it links to Inkstone talking about how LinkedIn has totally sucked up to China, but even Inkstone refers to the Tiananmen "crackdown", not the "massacre". So it's working, even in places it is supposed not to.

In the US, police have to murder black people in ones and twos, building up numbers slowly so as not to attract too much attention. In China they get to murder people wholesale. It makes them sloppy.

It seems strange how those who have chosen to participate in law enforcement are so resistant to the idea of not routinely murdering people. Not even just as a matter of, say, setting a good example.

Sure they have. And meanwhile they are making contingency plans to leave China in the least expensive manner. The culture wars are coming.