Search results

Clinton pulled out of Somalia over less than two dozen dead and you expect him to go to war that is expected to kill thousands of servicemen? He would weasel his way out by guaranteeing security of Taiwan within its pre-1997 borders, but let them hung dry in Hong Kong itself.

What other nations? You think Clinton and Blair would go to war with China?

How long could the Taiwan hold it? Few days?

Unlikely, outright military assault would be admition of failiure, it's more likely they will bring police from other parts of China, give them Hong Kong uniforms and thus reinforce those who are already beating up people there. Also more reliance on criminals and party members to form police...

How? They still wouldn't have guns and carrier battlegroup outside their territorial waters would be more likely to spur the government into cracking down on protestors harder, rather than relent in face of American pressure and appear weak.

I'm sure being former American colony was such a big positive Philipinnes, not to mention the well developed gun private gun ownership in Japan and South Korea.

Libertarians can only be a short lived phase, people naturally gravitate towards hirearchies, which bring forth the rules/laws to fortify the said hirearchies.

Actually, transplanting loyal population to disloyal areas has been done for milenias, Rome did it, it's how Han population expanded to current borders, Brits did it in the Empire... Party doesn't even need to do much in this regard, there already is economic migration to Hong Kong, all they...

You would be surprised how many people just don't give a damn about it, even within HK. They will be reviled by big part of the community there, but it will be a shrinking portion of population, due to mainland immigration and media propaganda.

This reminds of how leftards started calling Weinstein a conservative, once his dirty deeds became well known.

That's because it is owned by Qattar royal family which is at odds with Saudis. The rest of MSM almost completely ignores the Yemen war.

It's similar to situation in Yemen, we hardly hear anything about the war there, while in Syrian war we heard about every bomb dropped and every missile fired. Not to mention the destruction of the last hospital in Aleppo every two or three days.

They are defeated, the government outlasted them and relegated them to the ranks of common nuisances, like the car burnig gangs.

They have been effectively marginalized and sidelined.

Problem for protestors is that China can keep up this for a long time, gradually attriting them through time, with some similarity to how the French government dealt with Yellow Vests.