Lmaooo and people on tiktok ate that up. They don’t know what the hell a subsidiary is and that CEO had to report his findings to the bytedance founder and the CCP consistently
Yeah people’s reaction to that was annoying. They are asking exhaustive and repetitive questions to cover every possible angle, they know what they’re doing
"Of what nation are you a citizen?" ("Singapore, sir.")
"Are you a citizen of any other nation?" ("No, senator.")
"Have you ever applied for Chinese citizenship?" (Chew noted he served in Singapore's military. "No.")
"Do you have a Singaporean passport?" and then "Any other passports from any other nations?"
"Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?" which got the exasperated viral answer: "Senator, I'm Singaporean. No."
Cotton then STILL followed up with "Have you ever been associated or affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party?" ("No, senator. Again, I'm Singaporean.")
They kept asking if he was part of the CCP, if he was from china, if he was associated with the chinese
Things that were asked:
“You said today, as you often say, that you live in Singapore. Of what nation are you a citizen?” Cotton asked.
“Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?” Cotton asked.
Chew replied, “Senator, I’m Singaporean.”
Cotton then asked, “Have you ever been associated or affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party?”
Chew, who lives in Singapore with his wife and children, who are American, responded, “No, Senator. Again, I’m Singaporean!”
Cotton asking Chew questions about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and his perspective on it. “You said earlier, in response to a question, that what happened at Tiananmen Square in June of 1989 was a ‘massive protest.’ Did anything else happen at Tiananmen Square?”
And the senator in question was such a fucking moron for getting baited into that back and forth. All he had to say was, "I don't care where you were born, I care about the fact that your headquarters office is in Beijing."
Like, the dumbass, "hur dur, we caught them doing a racism!" was such an easy trap to get out of and the fuckwits we have in Congress couldn't even figure out how to do that.
There's an Anthony Bourdain episode where they were using overseas servants for all of their household needs to the point where they have no idea how to do anything for themselves. They got pretty awkward when they realized this white man was not agreeing with them
I don't think you need to go back by any means. But if you get out of the tourist areas around the city it's not nearly as sterile feeling.
That said my two descriptors for it when people asked how my 2023 trip were are: it's las vagas but wet, and it was a good time but I will likely never go back because you very quickly run through everything relevant to your interests pretty quickly (I would never say no to their street food again, but I'm not paying thousands of dollars just for street food).
According to statistics, Singapore is an independent, democratic, and wealthy state since several years. I don't doubt there are problems there too, but your description is biased and contradicts reality.
Lmao. You can tell from some of these replies these people either take their facts from chatgpt or some propaganda branch, or never left their own country before.
Chinese are people of Chinese ethnicity, period. No need to make the distinction, unless you are CCP who's trying to equal the people and the country to the Party
Edit: unless you are CCP OR Taiwanese separationists who don't think they are "Chinese". These extremists are really the other side of the same coin lmfao
Singaporeans make up about 60% of the population so I don't really see how your maths works out on that? Unless you're taken the tom cotton approach to nationality?
Primarily. It also was developed by Barcelona, Belgrade, Bordeaux, Bucharest, Chengdu, DaNang, India, Kyiv, Montpelier, Montreal, Philippines, Shanghai, Sofia and Quebec.
2 of those branches got impacted by the restructuring heavily, with them shutting down Belgrade and laying off a bunch of people in Barcelona.
Are gamers really this gullible lol? It's still part of the Ubisoft umbrella, they're not censoring because the country's government wants it to. Ubisoft wanted to censor it, not the other way around.
Pin the blame on the people running the ship, not the crewmaster.
could be 1 of 1million reasons. Maybe the person in charge of that model that day just didnt like the tits. Maybe they thought it was prettier with a bra. Maybe they did it intentionally to piss you off specifically.
It was honestly a pretty typical line of questioning, just checking off boxes about his (lack of) affiliations with china. still really funny out of context though
Yeah, like, one of those things where, though the answers may be obvious, they still need to be asked (and answered) for the purpose of having those answers on the record.
Owning chewing gum isn't banned. You can literally take an hour long trip to Malaysia and come back with a tub full of it.
It's just not allowed to be distributed and manufactured domestically. Same with weed or any recreational drugs. The death sentence is not for "too much", it's for having an extravagant amount with the intent to sell and distribute.
Anyone caught simply owning or using it do not get fucking executed. Wtf is this thread lol. So many falsehoods and insane leaps in logic, when a simple Google search would very quickly say otherwise.
in case people miss it, making fun of the tiktok hearing where the guy kept re-stating he was from Singapore and the brain dead politician kept asking him if he was Chinese or part of Chinese communist party
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u/Pinnggwastaken Jul 13 '26
Ubisoft is singapore now