Posted on 09/08/2019 5:29:49 AM PDT by KC_Lion
Lets make a deal.
The USA gets Hong Kong.
Communist China gets California.
The rest of America gets free livers & kidneys.
:-)
That’s another finger in China’s eye...
There’s some who would want us to “intervene” and others who would say “It’s none of our business” even as we sank below the waves....Principles and reality ain’t always synonymous...
Comparing the situations in the western USSR and Hong Kong are comparing apples and oranges. US can provide a tipping point, but the heavy lifting must be done by the inhabitants over time. This revolution is not ripe yet.
Interesting how nations cry out to the USA whenever they’re trying to alter their political landscape, then when the US does assist in the next breath they gripe and belly ache about our ‘interference’ and to get out. They quickly forget it’s not a free ride.
I agree. Dressed in black like antifah doesn’t help.
I agree. Dressed in black like antifah doesn’t help.
I have that picture for my desktop here at work.
>>Hong Kong routinely extradites people to many countries. So, I don’t get the idea of no treaty as opposed to one that covers crimes recognized as crimes even within Hong Kong.<<
I could be wrong, but I think the problem with the proposed law (treaty?) was that it would cover actions recognized as crimes within China, not Hong Kong itself. And the definition of a crime in a communist dictatorship can be very fluid, tailored to fit the current needs of the leadership.
The fact remains, however, that Hong Kong is destined to be under the thumb of the Chinese government eventually, and possibly sooner rather than later. If it’s taken by force soon, no one is going to try to stop them militarily. After all, it’s now a part of China officially, just with a different set of rules for the time being.
Hong Kong’s best chance, in my opinion, is that the trade war is hurting China sufficiently to bring about a change in their trade behavior and that part of the negotiations behind the scenes will address Hong Kong’s situation. Given the city’s role in world trade, that’s certainly possible.
But when the 50 years are up, Hong Kong people will be living under Chinese rule, whatever that might be at the time.
“This revolution is not ripe yet.”
Three generations of single child policy results in lots of self centered spoiled brats ready to rebel.
Absolutely, when Britain's Maggie Thatcher went to Beijing in 1982 to launch the "handover" negotiations, reminding China's Deng Xiaoping of the UK's successful intervention in the Falklands, Deng responded that an amphibious assault Hong Kong will lead to Gallipoli 2. He told her that China supplied about 90% of Hong Kong's food and water.
Is President Trump REALLY prepared to supply seven million civilians AND his own troops to fight a protracted peninsula campaign adjacent to the Red Chinese mainland?
“When the British turned over Hong Kong to China, the people in Hong Kong had 50 years to leave or get ready to be governed by Communists. Nothing the US says will make a difference.”
This something an idiot says.
It’s hard to believe there are people here who say things as stupid as you just did here.
“Notice the Trump on a tank graphic. They at least have my sympathy now.”
They didn’t before?
I never knew there were so many idiots who post here.
“China took back their bill. The Hong Kong protests should stop. Trump should do nothing, say nothing. Except maybe to praise Lam for taking back the bill. Protesters need to just take the win.”
Just like you need to accept inevitable rule by our communist Democrat superiors and their new world order.
Same dynamic.
Give it some thought, you’ll understand.
Tell that to all the countries helped by the US.
Tell it to Eastern Europe.
Are you that stupid and ignorant?
I wonder if setting the fire and breaking things was done by the Chinese government to discredit the protesters. Like the Reichstag fire by Hitler supporters.
I’m rubber and you’re glue.
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