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by wowzerz 2862 days ago
To provide some better perspective, this link has a picture of the incident, and described in greater detail that the mechanism of action wasn’t simply some newspaper rallying for a boycott.

https://medium.com/@shanghaiist/taiwan-coffee-chain-85-c-dis...

Apparently, the parent company Gourmet Master Co. runs a chain of cafes, which used apps to facilitate orders via smart phone, leading to a drop in impulse buys?

I dunno, something tells me regular people just aren’t that rabid about territorial disputes regarding places they’ll never visit, or might only visit once or twice during a vacation.

If America were to entertain the option of trading Hawaii for Puerto Rico, as state #50, would people go nuts? I probably wouldn’t, but then again, I’m not most people.