A clash of civilisations played out at SCMP’s annual China Conference: the full debate

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• ME

  @MegaSuehan · 5 years ago

  Seems like the HKU professor's arguments do not hold water.

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• TH

  @th.ynwa88 · 4 years ago

  Li offered facts, prof offered rhetoric

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• SL

  @sl531 · 5 years ago

  Another professor commenting on China without any historical prospective!

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• EL

  @elinong1063 · 5 years ago

  No wonder the Hong Kong youth are so confused with this man in the education system.

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• PL

  @pleung3106 · 5 years ago

  The professor is mired in his twilight zone. I am severely saddened that HKU wasted good money on inept teacher, but even worse, deluded our younger generation with such lies and fiction, while imbiling with totally false realities.

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• SK

  @skshum · 6 years ago

  with this professor at helm of HKU journalism school, no wonder our students are going down the drain

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• PE

  @PeterSodhi · 5 years ago

  This sums up the difference - Eric Lee a superb intellect using real lessons and history. Then the other guy...

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• BK

  @BKLau60 · 5 years ago

  Question isn't about China integrating into the world, but western dissatisfaction of China's rise in becoming an equal, and worst of all bigger than US economy.

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• SC

  @scottlim9898 · 5 years ago

  When the professor said Latin American countries are doing well, he lost the debate 😂

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• PA

  @pascalgu6771 · 5 years ago

  Looking back from 2021, what a joke this so-called professor was.

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• MY

  @mythicalmining7999 · 5 years ago

  &quot;China is a market economy, and it is a vibrant market economy, but it is not a capitalist country; here is why. There is no way a group of billionaires could control the politburo as billionaires control American policy making. So in China you have a vibrant market economy but capital does not rise above political authority, capital does not have enshrined rights. In America capital, the interest of capital and capital itself, has risen above the American nations. The political authority cannot check the power of capital and that’s why America is a Capitalist country and China is not.&quot; Eric Li<br><br>That blew my mind, we think of Communism as both economic and political but democracy as political and capitalism as economic. Yet look at the US gov&apos;t, literally

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• DE

  @dejavue3013 · 5 years ago

  So when did the US ever try to make Saudi Arabia more like us?? Such hypocrites.

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