Interesting, Ed. I remember the arrest you mention. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 12:56 PM Edward Angel <an...@cs.unm.edu> wrote: > We were in Taiwan during their first truly democratic election. The U.S. > media was filled with dire predictions of imminent war. The reality was > that no one in Taiwan was worried about an attack. China and Taiwan, in > spite of the rhetoric, were deeply coupled economically and war would be > disastrous for both sides. The only evidence the Taiwanese newspapers > reported in as a result of the “tensions” was an increase in the number of > prostitutes arriving in Taiwan from Macao and Hong Kong. However, we did > note that a foreign tourist was arrested for taking down an election banner > as a souvenir which was regarded as serious offense. I doubt things are > much different now. > > We also spent time in Hong Kong just before and just after it going back > to China. For a while not much changed and there were restrictions that > prevented mainland Chinese from entering Hong Kong. At that time, China was > very dependent on Hong Kong as its economic outlet to the rest of the world > and didn’t want to threaten that status. It’s very different now as China > has developed many other outlets and consequently they are willing to treat > Hong Kong like the rest of China. > > Ed > _______________________ > > Ed Angel > > Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory > (ARTS Lab) > Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico > > 1017 Sierra Pinon > Santa Fe, NM 87501 > 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu > 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel > > On Nov 12, 2021, at 12:02 PM, Stephen Guerin <stephen.gue...@simtable.com> > wrote: > > Nick, > > > Is Hong Kong not being digested as we speak? Is pressure not increasing > on the Taiwanese? > > An orthogonal perspective is healing and unification post-occupation and > aggression by foreign powers. ie: > > - North/South Vietnam > - Manchuria/China > - East/West Germany > - North/South Korea > > I am concerned about US military buildup in Taiwan > <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/taiwan-china-us-marines/2021/10/08/20378918-27d8-11ec-8739-5cb6aba30a30_story.html> > after agreeing to one china policy > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy> in 1979. How did we feel > about USSR flexing its muscle in Cuba? > > -Stephen > > 这就是你想让我说的吗？ 我们现在可以在中国推出我们的软件吗？ > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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