Because when CCP is influential enough (through all the seemly benign companies it controls), you, as a citizen of US, will be forced to not to speak anything bad about it, an authoritarian country now and a totalitarian-Empire-to-be.
The state is not a static line of code. The senior party members behind the Ant changed their mind for whatever reason, willingly or unwillingly. The result is the haunt of the IPO.
It does not need to be relative to anything to be “bad”.
A state-owned company in a totalitarian empire is part of a system that suppresses freedom of speech, uses forced labour, conducts genocide, seeks to undermine democracy overseas. That’s why it’s bad.
No. What you said has nothing to do with the state-owned enterprise. Is a piece of bread in your totalitarian empire bad? A state-owned enterprise provide employment, food and shelter for employees, and also provide social and economy functions for the general public.
Many years later, as he knelt before Emperor Xi, Donald Trump Jr. was to remember that distant afternoon when his father had a chance to form TPP, the everyone but China trade agreement.
I think this is definitely the western assumption from events like this, that the regulators want a cut, etc. The real risk here is that once you grow big enough to pose a real risk to economic stability, AND you are clearly not publicly pledging your fealty to the state, then you get 'out of control' and Chinese culture would support reining you in. While this may seem corrupt to the US lens, I personally have to admit that this kind of action strikes me as politically savvy. Regulate before Jack makes the statement, and it seems like stifling innovation; don't regulate at all, and the capitalists gain power.
Speaking about art in SG. I find that street artists in Europe are way more better than those in SG. I’m always amazed by their skill and enthusiasm in my Europe trip. While back in SG, the only ones I see are art students or old uncles playing some music that you can hardly say “good”. This is sad.
Some of that is cultural. Education is math and science, art is for when you’ve done your homework and is regarded more as “play” than a serious subject worth dedicating yourself to (some exception noted).
Ditto for correctness, importance, and strength. In effect the four components are like numbers you can multiply together to get a score for usefulness.
I think OP was referring to the sudden obsession with dark mode (in the past year or so). It's not like screens and night time are new things, so what changed in the past while to induce this dark mode craze?
I think it correlates with the "blue light" studies that were released lately. As far as I know they weren't conclusive, but both Microsoft and Apple implemented Flux-like screen dimming, dark mode seems like a logical step.
Personally I prefer light themes, I just turn the lights on so that I don't sit in the dark.
