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eductionyesterday at 7:50 PM3 repliesview on HN

They were not told of any issues until 8 days before the event, this week, after talking to government officials since 2024.

What would your “fallback” be, eight days out? Very curious.


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semiquaveryesterday at 10:23 PM

They weren’t told of any issues because there weren’t any issues until the Chinese government started applying pressure to Zambia.

PradeetPatelyesterday at 8:01 PM

Change the physical conference into a virtual one, this way it respects the speakers, allow people to mingle and ideas to flourish.

It's no replacement for an in-person conference, but this approach is better than straight up cancelling everything.

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peytonyesterday at 8:06 PM

Fallback would be doing

> What the government wanted from us in order to lift the postponement

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