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    The legislation is a bunch of fluff anyway. The news make it sound like some sort of automatic mechanism is built in to trigger certain actions on the 1992 act while the language only states that a report needs to be made to Congress. A Democratic Congress is not going to give a Republican White House the final say on policy implementation...


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    Quote Originally Posted by jgl:
    It takes a week to organise a meeting with 150 random people? Is this some kind of joke?
    Easily takes me a week to get 5 people to agree on when to meet up. Even then we usually end up agreeing on 3 different dates for 3 different things...
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    Any decent and god/xidada-fearing expatriate Hongkonger will have perused their daily Hemlock already while sipping homebrew or gourmet indie mocha, so I guess this pointer's for the tourists then...

    https://www.biglychee.com/2019/09/20...red-hot-tongs/

    One modest but potentially potent method of resistance could be to boycott pro-Beijing companies. To no-one’s great surprise, they are so concentrated that it’s hard to avoid them without starving yourself. They include 7-Eleven – a pillar of our urban civilization – and both Starbucks and Pacific Coffee. A good reason to hunt out indie coffee shops where they exist
    McDonald's (HK) is infamously operated by the CCP's investment arm CITIC of course.

    With boycotts being one of the best non-violent protest actions that can be, umm, performed by anyone daily and without fear of retaliation I think having widely available resource also in English (think of the chil... tourists!) would be important.

    A list of pro-freedom businesses might in fact be easier to compile, but that would automatically make them a target for the regime and their United Front enforcers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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    And more security measures at Gov HQ
    https://twitter.com/claudiamcmo/stat...739175942?s=21


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    Quote Originally Posted by aceofangel:
    The legislation is a bunch of fluff anyway. The news make it sound like some sort of automatic mechanism is built in to trigger certain actions on the 1992 act while the language only states that a report needs to be made to Congress. A Democratic Congress is not going to give a Republican White House the final say on policy implementation...
    But at least that is still something.