Oh they know how to do it. I was blacked out/blocked once during Golden Week. No American websites or vpn's worked.
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This is truly horrifying and would be economic suicide.
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“Hong Kong will die!” Please tell me that’s just a quirk of non-native English-speaking and not actual violent malice for a city of several million people.
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He means that it will destroy the things that make Hong Kong the city it is right now.
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I doubt it. They've employed this tactic before, if anything probably India taking cues from China.
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Beijing has employed communications blackouts before esp. in Xinjiang, cutting off both internet and phone services to an entire region. I don't doubt they could if they wanted to, and it would be economically devastating.
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