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They weren’t told of any issues because there weren’t any issues until the Chinese government started applying pressure to Zambia.

Change the physical conference into a virtual one, this way it respects the speakers, allow people to mingle and ideas to flourish.

It's no replacement for an in-person conference, but this approach is better than straight up cancelling everything.

It was actually less than eight days out before they knew they were cancelled. It's hard to do something in so little time.

It's Friday and the conference is Tuesday. Half their people, it sounds like, at least, are on the ground in Zambia already.

You'd take a conference a year in the making and shift it online over a weekend from your hotel room in a developing country? No you would not. I don't blame them for not doing that.

Fallback would be doing

> What the government wanted from us in order to lift the postponement

Take away someone's rights for your rights conference, what could possibly go wrong.