• PKMKII [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    Ranking trade agreements according to how many medals the member countries win is some serious bazinga shit

  • buh [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    how long until we see medals per capita

    • Rom [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership - a trade agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      5 months ago

      I think it’s a holdover from the British colonial days. Puerto Rico has one too.

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        5 months ago

        I keep forgetting that a lot of people on the internet were too young to remember/not born around the time of the handover in 1997.

        My anime poisoned brain always remembers Neo-Hong Kong being the host country for the Gundam Fight tournament lol.

    • Greenleaf [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      I think part of it is, in table tennis China is so dominant that it allows more Chinese competitors. I don’t think HK competes in anything else. It’s like if they allowed Texas to compete as its own country in flag football (yes, that will be an Olympic event in 2028).

  • iridaniotter [she/her, she/her]
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    5 months ago

    CPTPP and EU is ridiculous. There are a bunch of non-countries, pseudo-countries, and countries under "free association" participating though so IDK why you're circling Hong Kong when you could also be questioning all of these:

    1. American Samoa
    2. Aruba
    3. Bermuda
    4. British Virgin Islands
    5. Cayman Islands
    6. Chinese Taipei
    7. Cook Islands
    8. Federated States of Micronesia
    9. Guam
    10. Hong Kong, China
    11. Individual Neutral Athletes (AKA a handful of Russians and Belarusians)
    12. Marshall Islands
    13. Palau
    14. Refugee Olympic Team

    and maybe more that I missed.

    • CarbonScored [any]
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      5 months ago

      Presumably correct at time of publication. All the medal counts have changed since.