Cathay Pacific fires pilots for speaking out
08-26-2019, 10:20 AM
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Cathay Pacific fires pilots for speaking out
Cathay Pacific is firing pilots who speak out against the Chinese government:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...onday-activity
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...onday-activity
08-30-2019, 10:01 AM
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Originally Posted by SonicFlyer
Well the company told its employees that they must tow the pro-government line which is absurd.
These guys are fighting communism over there.
These guys are fighting communism over there.
08-30-2019, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by SonicFlyer
Well the company told its employees that they must tow the pro-government line which is absurd.
These guys are fighting communism over there.
These guys are fighting communism over there.
These guys are fighting a dictatorship over there.
The business model behind it isn't relevant, but surely isn't communism anymore.
08-30-2019, 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by symbian simian
FTFY:
These guys are fighting a dictatorship over there.
The business model behind it isn't relevant, but surely isn't communism anymore.
These guys are fighting a dictatorship over there.
The business model behind it isn't relevant, but surely isn't communism anymore.
Didn't quite work out that way now did it ?
08-31-2019, 04:40 AM
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Originally Posted by DYNASTY HVY
Dictatorship the one word you seldom hear about on the news and people years ago were under the assumption that trading with them would slowly eradicate communism in that part of the world .
Didn't quite work out that way now did it ?
Didn't quite work out that way now did it ?
08-31-2019, 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by symbian simian
FTFY:
These guys are fighting a dictatorship over there.
The business model behind it isn't relevant, but surely isn't communism anymore.
These guys are fighting a dictatorship over there.
The business model behind it isn't relevant, but surely isn't communism anymore.
PRC is run by an autocratic system, which wants to dominate it's neighbors in addition to it's people, but at least they don't have a vision of global domination. They want to be the dominate nation in the pacific and maybe the world, but they don't want to actually run the world.
08-31-2019, 07:54 AM
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Originally Posted by DYNASTY HVY
Dictatorship the one word you seldom hear about on the news and people years ago were under the assumption that trading with them would slowly eradicate communism in that part of the world .
Didn't quite work out that way now did it ?
Didn't quite work out that way now did it ?
09-01-2019, 02:22 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Yeah, our fundamental gripe with communism was that they wanted to impose it on us, and everyone else.
PRC is run by an autocratic system, which wants to dominate it's neighbors in addition to it's people, but at least they don't have a vision of global domination. They want to be the dominate nation in the pacific and maybe the world, but they don't want to actually run the world.
PRC is run by an autocratic system, which wants to dominate it's neighbors in addition to it's people, but at least they don't have a vision of global domination. They want to be the dominate nation in the pacific and maybe the world, but they don't want to actually run the world.
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