Well, well, well. Let me conclude this mess since I was the person involved in the beginning. I don’t wish to leave all of these mess to mods as the forum is a community of all of us and there should be some responsibilities for us.
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My Personal Stance
First of all, I need to stress the following:
- I have no intention to bring geopolitical issues to the forum.
- I have no intention to make any comment over the status over the Taiwan Strait
- I have no intention to debate over geopolitical issues.
- I have no intention to approve any political message.
- I have no intention to endorse any political figure or entity.
- Once I was aware my post may cause confusion to some people, I replied to a post pointed that out and edited my post at my best knowledge to minimize the potential impact
For some people (I had this for one time, of course about business, when a Chinese client emailed me and said: “I just want to ensure you have the right attitude!”) really curious about my stance, I am very happy to be in line with Australian government over this issue:
“Australia adheres to its one-China policy, which means we do not recognise Taiwan as a country.”
Source:
https://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/china/china-country-brief
(And in other words we regard it as a region, and yes, Taiwan is a region of China)
The term region is generally based on so-called [Tariff Zones], as you may be aware if you deliver goods to Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan you may be subject to different customs/border rules and tariff/duty lists. And that is the term I used in the post for [Region], I feel I should make it absolutely clear to eliminate further debates over that.
If anyone is still unhappy with this stance, please contact your local Australian Embassy/Consulate General to lodge a formal complaint. That would be the right place to discuss such concerns in relation to these issues. It would be appreciated if you can refrain from bringing it to this forum, this is not the place for geopolitical disputes.
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Please Show Proper Respect if You are Looking for Respect
I would like to say, please show proper respect to others on this forum, that is shown through behaviors on this forum.
For the person who escalated this mess, I have an additional question for you (I am not name calling but I feel it is not that inappropriate to let people know this):
May I kindly ask why you copied my post at SCL Pre-release Discussion and made that into yours?
I don’t think this is a form of proper respect. I typed it into the web browser by my hands rather than generated it by AI and avoid copying others’ post is a good practice on this forum. I was very disappointed at that moment and very confused about that.
And if you say the mess your brought up is just a [small issue], we see things from action rather than words. I thought it was a small issue at the moment I found my earlier post was copied. I didn’t reply to the thread and say some terrible words (while you did), or PM mods to bring this to their attention. And that was not because I am a good target to bully on, that was because I respect other people on this forum and never intend to escalate that small matter into another mess.
I replied to the second people mentioning that to me simply because the tone in that post was more polite and inviting and I immediately responded then make sure I did the right thing. That is the way to earn respect from other people, please!
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No Insulting Behaviors
I also can tell you all I found a post earlier replying me (now hidden, but I can see it through other posts quoting it) to say something like [you don’t want to offend the Chinese player community because of it, do you!].
Such statement by him is absolutely unacceptable whatsoever. You cannot represent a community to judge anyone/anything, nor making verbal threat to other people on this forum. Again, this is absolutely unacceptable.
I was also very disappointed to found I was also messaged by an unknown account (I can tell you all that was the second account banned for better transparency), simply including personal attacks and very likely due to the post I had. I have contacted mods over this and I have no intention to escalate but to convince you all I need to post a screenshot. I folded that so if you would like to avoid it, just avoid clicking it.
I was really sad about such things. I don’t feel I had any intention to offend any person at the very beginning.
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Respect People in Our Communities
Some of you may know that I work with a lot of Chinese people in my business (some are employees and many are clients) and my family has Chinese heritage (many Aussies do, even including the Australian F1 driver Oscar Piastri). They are really good people, caring and hardworking. And I also have somewhat positive image of the country if you check my previous posts. I just give you an example.
What I didn’t mention in that post is that guy in Chongqing, picked me up at the wrong terminal literally apologize to me three times on the car to the city and proposed if he could pay for my metro train (I told him I took the shuttle bus for no cost). They are really good people and I had really great impression on them.
So beyond that guy we do have a community with a lot of good players, some of them are contributing to the forum from my knowledge. Such terrible behaviors and all the consequences are only to themselves, not the Chinese player community.
And therefore, I also invite you all to show proper respect to Chinese players (and other players from different communities) on this forum.
Thank you all for your understanding at the very end! And please head back to the original topic to discuss the game.