It's inevitable that eventually China will take back Hong Kong, and Taiwan too. I wish it was possible to protect and increase freedom and human rights globally but get real. The population of Hong Kong is 7.5 million and China 1.5 billion. Who is going to fight a war with 1.5 billion Chinese people to protect the freedoms of one small Chinese city?
That would destroy Belt & Road for a generation or two along with any other charm offensive China has going.
The US should immediately join TPP for ne.
Chinese students who are studying in Australia - and who have joined pro-Hong Kong democracy protests *in Oz* - are now finding their families have been approached and warned by officials in China. Staggering, yet unsurprising. Via @fergushunter https://t.co/IWGw0TidDS
the idea that Hong Kongers, who want self-determination & fair political presentation, are brainwashed imperialists who have some kind of superiority complex(? from being colonised??) is, again, 1) a galaxy brain take and 2) exactly the CCP’s line on the issue https://t.co/0TW5g22bdZ
after the glorious marxist revolution, my allergies and social anxiety will prevent me from engaging in physical work. my job will be gulag reeducator pic.twitter.com/tE46FxHnTY
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It's inevitable that eventually China will take back Hong Kong, and Taiwan too. I wish it was possible to protect and increase freedom and human rights globally but get real. The population of Hong Kong is 7.5 million and China 1.5 billion. Who is going to fight a war with 1.5 billion Chinese people to protect the freedoms of one small Chinese city?
by ocean-kat on Sun, 08/04/2019 - 10:48am
Seems the Hong Kongers are doing it already. Only a question of what form it takes.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 08/04/2019 - 12:48pm
Just a few thoughts:
They will be painted, as is traditional in the culture, as "hooligans."
The massing on the border = "the people's" might makes right.
Tianamen Square screwed with this whole paradigm, that's why the government tries to make it a no-go topic.
Islam screws with it worse, them that have this disease got to be re-edjumacted.
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/04/2019 - 4:36pm
Hong Kong brought to a standstill as city-wide strikes and protests hit
More than 150 flights cancelled and train services suspended as city braces for fresh marches
@ TheGuardian.com, Aug. 5
They are doing live updated coverage as well:Hong Kong protest: car rams protesters in Yuen Long – live updates
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 4:01am
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/06/2019 - 6:38pm
That would destroy Belt & Road for a generation or two along with any other charm offensive China has going.
The US should immediately join TPP for ne.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/06/2019 - 6:58pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/07/2019 - 7:16pm
James Palmer retweeted
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/07/2019 - 7:22pm