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China backs down under fear of american retributions and Olympics boycott

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by malakas, Oct 11, 2019.

  1. tinman

    tinman Contributing Member
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    Can we have a mandate on dormant accounts that suddenly woke up after ten years of no posting to spam the GARM and insult the citizens of Clutch City?
    Where the championship banners in red and yellow had nothing to do with a foreign entity but the purity of team who won for a city needing championships?
    Rudy T told us to destroy non believers
     
  2. Little Bit

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    Yao got high blood pressure for no reason. Is he still hot??
     
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  3. JayGoogle

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    I don't think China will be allowed to ban or single out a team, I don't think the NBA will stand for that, banning just the Rockets still makes this a story and the US Congress made it clear that it wouldn't be acceptable.

    The NBA allowing China to ban the Rockets means Silver still has to stand up for them and that means this still gets escalated throughout the year.

    I think it's more likely they tamper down the NBA hype for a while but as time goes on will forget this ever happened.

    Banning the Rockets would be no small thing.

    It will be interesting to see China's relationship with the Rockets moving forward, if this will forever be a grudge with the team or if they will also just shrug and move on from it. It's really up to Yao. My guess is if Yao tells the Chinese public that its still cool to be a Rocket fan than most people will just move on? I don't know, I'm not there to say, but we know the love for Yao is strong, as it should be, he was an all-time great.
     
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    So you honestly think tencent canceled all Rockets broadcasts by themselves? With no direction from the government? :rolleyes:
     
  5. kubli9

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    A good step in reaching that stability is not having petty overreactions to a deleted tweet. In the eyes of Americans, you all look crazy with how you've handled this whole thing.
     
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    LOL at RED China!!! :eek:

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    ironily, china's biggest tech company (huawei) founder's daughter give up mainland citizen. and enjoy her luxury life in canada..
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    The problem is that the Chinese do not regard later replies from Morey and Silver as sincere apologies, compared with many other similar incidents happened earlier in which the international brands ended up siding with China. I understand the stances of Silver and Morey because of the backslash in the US, but then the further backslash from China was also unavoidable.
     
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    That’s because you can own stuff in other countries
    That’s real capitalism
     
  10. tinman

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    Tencent could be part of the government however they can never be part of Clutchfans

    if all the pure fans united and reported fake fans to @Clutch
    We’d win this war and get back our GARM

    Pure fans...Rollout !!
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  11. JayGoogle

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    And further backlash in the USA is also unavoidable. I think the report here is true, China is backing down. Whether they feel Silver/Morey's apologies are sincere are not doesn't really matter since they are backing down. The fact is they had silenced the NBA, Morey deleted his tweet, apologized, at this point they won. When they started to push the issue they begin to lose, which is why they are now backing down from any escalation.

    They apologized all they could apologize for, they should not have to apologize for championing free speech and human rights, they should not.
     
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    So all in all: cash rules everything around me.
     
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    we can own stuff in china too,except freedom,land,election ticket,Playboys,guns,Christmas Day。。。。
     
  14. topfive

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    The Chinese government was apparently smart enough to realize this is a battle they can't win. Taken to its seemingly inevitable conclusion, the NBA would pull out of China altogether and look elsewhere, after which political pressure would start putting other US companies with China issues in the spotlight. If the US ceased all business with China, many of our companies would be hurt, but the Chinese economy would take a giant hit.
     
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    Big daddy Xi rules
     
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    THAT is the moral of this story.

    Was there ever any doubt?
     
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  17. hezhenxiangx

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    every time china gov lose a economy war. they told us we win!
    in chinese is " 中国或成为最大赢家"
     
  18. JayGoogle

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    Yep, in the end, after the tweet is pulled, the apology, and the star player backing your country...what else could you want?

    I think once the US Congress got involved they saw that this was going to become a bigger, international, issue and they are (or would be) smart to just reverse course here because it's like the report said...many people are learning about China and its human rights abuses now.

    Also from the China side...lots of people in China make money off the NBA, selling shoes, airing the games, etc etc and I imagine they would not be so happy about China just ending their business over a tweet.

    It would have been easy for China to say... "We disagree with where Silver and the NBA stands on this issue but any partnership is about cooperation, as such, we look forward to moving forward and blah blah blah..." and this is done.
     
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    Our American president always says he's winning, even when he's obviously not.

    But to be fair, Charlie Sheen started it all:

     
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    Well, this thirst for "sincere apologies" is exactly the problem. It just shows that China has an unreasonable amount of nationalism and historical baggage tied up in this. In the end, it's one tweet, that has been deleted on a platform that Chinese aren't supposed to be able to access, from a country based on democracy. No-one doubts that Chinese don't like the tweet. But to treat it like it's the second coming of the Opium War?

    It's a fact that China is leading the world in many areas. When you waste that status on petty issues you show weakness, not strength.
     
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