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I enjoy the video and this is a very fair interview. I am in lockdown in Shanghai right now so I have a very accurate read of the situation here. I would like to add a few comments disagreeing on a few point and adding a few important point missed by the video:
1) The point I don't agree with is the shouting from apartment block phenomenon. The video literally shows the residential community where I lived in. Yes the video of our residential community in-house concert went viral and was used by a lot of local and foreign media. Yesterday I went for a walk at my residential compound and there are still people screaming loudly across to other residential compound to get them to sing. I am not discounting the fact that some residential compound was using this method to protest, but I have not seen any. But I am quite perplexed when they use the video of my residential compound and says that its a protest. They are literally just having a mini concert to relieve stress of being in lockdown. My wife does it too but not for a concert, she shout in the open from our balcony because it is so quiet outside and our voice can be heard echoing. This would be impossible during normal times when there are so many background noise from traffic. Everybody shout for a very different reason, please don't put a blanket statement covering all the people that shout from their balcony.
2) Regarding the food distribution, I need to add a few comment: There is no one that I know starved to death in Shanghai, even amongst the least prepared people. Why? Because there will be neighbors helping you out. Food bartering and gifting is one of the most popular activity in residential compound at the moment. Most residential compound has their own wechat group and any request for certain food items is always answered. The elder people that don't use them have their neighbor or the residential community group helping them get their food. I have already have a group of six elders in my chatgroup that I helped in regular basis to order their groceries. I am surprised food bartering and community approach to distribute food was not covered well in this interview. Not all is well however, some residential communities are victims of price gauging by the group buy leader of their community. Prices of some basic products was sold at exorbitant prices that lead to residents revolting against the group buy people. In many cases the community organizer takes over the food distribution and restore the price to a more reasonable level.
3) Gov assistance: Every sub district gets a very different gov food assistance. This literally depends on the ability of the sub district gov officials to source their groceries. Some have it quite good, I know a friend that barely need to do group buy and survive almost entirely out of gov assistance, but I also know some people that barely get any. I got a few of these packages from the gov, about once a week on average, not enough to survive but again we don't need it since we have a very strong group buy at reasonable prices. Some of the free food has quality problems as well and recently cause a few people to get sick after eating a free chicken.
4) About the quarantine hospital: very accurate description except for how the interviewee describe the people's attitude towards it. From what i know from people around me and myself, we are more afraid of the quarantine hospital than the disease itself. We make sure to isolate ourselves as much as possible at home so that we don't go through the process of quarantine. Some facilities are good and the majority are acceptable as emergency shelter but some are just pure horror story level. We pray that we don't get pulled into those abandoned warehouse for quarantine even though they are clearly not the majority of quarantine hospitals.
5) Regarding gov response: The main consensus nationwide and especially in Shanghai is that the current Shanghai lockdown is extremely disappointing. It is damaging Shanghai's reputation nationwide and hurting the reputation of the nation worldwide. Shanghai resident are angry at their government and tens of gov officials has been fired, resigned and demoted. I know they are holding back more gov official firing until the lockdown is over. After dust settles down, more high ranking officials will be fired and demoted. For those people that don't know China, first tear cities like Beijing and Shanghai is a testing and training ground for the next gen leader of China. They are suppose to be the best of the best in the meritocratic order. Xi Jinping himself was once the party secretary of Shanghai before he was promoted to vice president and eventually the president of PRC. The debacle in Shanghai shook the trust of the leadership to the core for many people. How is it that a small, obscure city or another first tier city like shenzhen does much better job that the "all star" Shanghai that carries the weight of the countries economy and a posterchild of Chinese modernization? Are the next gen leader this incompetent? There will be a major restructuring after the lockdown, the gov owes it to the people. This is accountability in China.
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Seems like there is huge misconception about dual citizenship in Japan. I hope I will get some votes up, so more people will know about how to keep dual citizenship even after coming of age.
On surface Japanese Nationality Law is made to encourage people to keep single nationality, but in fact it has a HUUUGE loophole for people, who wants keep dual citizenship "somehow" legally. According to Article 14 you may actually give up one of your citizenship OR declare a single citizenship by "declaration of choice". Just write "Nationality selection notification"(国籍選択届), where you swear that you prefer Japanese citizenship and "will endeavour to deprive yourself of the foreign nationality". But after this procedure there is no deadlines, no requirements to provide any proof. The law requires that one 'endeavor' to renounce. If the law wanted proof of renunciation (or the impossibility of such), then it would ask for that. So you are good as long as you do not exercise your foreign citizenship within Japan or voluntarily taken public office in the foreign country (in this case you will lose Japanese citizenship based on Article 16).
In fact, since 1985, when the Nationality Law was reenacted, there was ZERO cases of citizenship loss forced by the Ministry of Justice. Some people actually gave up another or Japanese citizenship, because they did not know about loophole(that is why law made in such way). But people who knew about loophole just applied "Nationality selection notification" and continued to live with both citizenship.
P.S. There is another category of dual citizens - people who hided their another nationality from Japanese government from the start. When you, for example, apply for Japanese passport, there is a question in form about possessing other citizenship. People hiding dual citizenship from start have to lie to this question. And lying in official form is actual crime. While people who made "declaration of choice" can honestly answer. Since it is form of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - they have no jurisdiction over individual cases of nationality: that is reserved to the Minister of Justice.
P.P.S. So Canadian-Japanese girl actually were able to keep dual citizenship. Dunno about Naomi Osaka, since she is public person.
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