Sorry but it is very tiresome and irksome to hear common misinformation repeated.
Especially when it serves only to support the Chinese Communists.
Two points, please.
1. Yes, it is often tiresome to see incorrect - or incomplete - information posted here on Free Republic. But to insult the poster is to shut down the conversation. Don’t you see that? We should all feel free to express our points of view. And if that view is wrong, someone usually comes along to offer a correction.
Awhile back there was a discussion of - of all things - lasers here on Free Republic. I know a lot about lasers. I’ve worked with them for decades. And someone posted some crazy wrong things about laser behavior. I did not insult him. After all, what good would that have done? Instead, I offered a gentle correction. I firmly feel that’s the way to go.
2. As to supporting the Chinese Communists, I certainly understand your position there. I hate those guys. And even more so since they carelessly unleashed the Wuhan virus on the world. They should be made to pay dearly for that.
But Hong Kong is a Chinese city. It just is. To defend UK sovereignty over any part of it is a dead end, in my opinion.