PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
What other nations? You think Clinton and Blair would go to war with China?It would be war. China would not risk other nations getting invovled
What other nations? You think Clinton and Blair would go to war with China?It would be war. China would not risk other nations getting invovled
The US would not let Taiwan be attacked. If anything they would post a Carrier group right outside of Hon Kong should Taiwan have been given Hong KongWhat other nations? You think Clinton and Blair would go to war with China?
I mean, sure we could put a reasonable limit on it, but it's still the right thing to do.But this isn't the past, this is now. With a little bit of creativity you may end up with a quarter of South America, Africa and Asia on your doorstep this way, and among them there are some governments that in fact would not mind masses of dissidents removing themselves out of the picture of their own will at all - a viewpoint not exactly famous among old school communist governments.
Those who are more like the old school ones, like North Korea, ensure that there aren't too many leaving from their own side.
Honestly, I'm not too worried compared to the humanitarian benefit this would provide, along with the long term brain drain this would inflict on China.You would be surprised. Spies don't have to be in defense contracting to be useful. Female ones especially
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.The US would not let Taiwan be attacked. If anything they would post a Carrier group right outside of Hon Kong should Taiwan have been given Hong Kong
Yup. Fang Fang is the new and famous case.
"Right thing to do" may be the golden standard to run national policy in inspirational movie scripts, but it leads to nasty problems in the real world though.I mean, sure we could put a reasonable limit on it, but it's still the right thing to do.
Why should all western countries rush to make a showing of this, when UK can do it better and more appropriately than the rest of them? With the numbers involved its not like UK is going to be overwhelmed.Honestly, I'm not too worried compared to the humanitarian benefit this would provide, along with the long term brain drain this would inflict on China.
China really did not go ham on Hong Kong till recentlyClinton 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.
China really did not go ham on Hong Kong till recently
China doesnt deserve itThere's a big difference between them having a policy of one country, two system and them tolerating a government they don't recognize taking control of an ethnically Han city on the mainland in perpetuity.
China doesnt deserve it
Well, they should if they are capable of ruining everything about them, and tell them to leave a place aloneChina probably doesn't care about what we think it deserves.
And to be frank, no country should care about what people who hate it think it deserves.
Also, look at what happened with the Christmas Day bombing and how easy it was to fuck with communications. Electrical infrastructure would also be a possible weak point that could be exploited just by having people join power companies and work on the stuff.You would be surprised. Spies don't have to be in defense contracting to be useful. Female ones especially
BBC said:Hong Kong's parliament - or Legislative Council (LegCo) - helps to make Hong Kong's laws.
It is made up of 70 seats - but only about half are directly voted for by the public. In recent years, some of the seats have been filled by pro-democracy figures.
The other half has mostly been filled by smaller groups representing special interests such as business, banking and trade, sectors which are historically pro-Beijing.
The proposed new law will give Hong Kong's heavily pro-Beijing electoral vetting committee the power to vet all LegCo candidates and elect many of its members.
Global Times said:The "two systems" in the policy baseline for Hong Kong - that of "one country, two systems" - refer to the economic systems, instead of the political system, the first president of the Legislative Council (LegCo) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) after the city returned to the motherland was quoted as saying in a recent media report, which was considered an interpretation, helping clarifying a vague and longstanding understanding about "two systems" in Hong Kong society.
What Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, former president of LegCo, wanted to emphasize in her interpretation of the "two systems" is that the electoral reform in Hong Kong is not about changing the political system in Hong Kong. What the central government has promised in terms of the capitalist system and lifestyle that Hong Kong has been maintaining remains unchanged, observers said.
Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, former president of LegCo, told Shenzhen TV that the actual situation has proved that the current electoral system in Hong Kong does not work out anymore, which has pushed the city onto "the edge of the cliff," making the prosperity and stability of the city vanish, she said.
I mean, the amazing. Thing is more it took this long. I guess I could see optimism in the 1990s: soviet union was collapsed, mass liberalization, even china was a liberal bastion compared to Mao. Trend lines did look proming things thing might be okay by the 2020s. Turns out not really.
Reason said:Last Thursday, hundreds of cops raided the offices of one of Hong Kong's most committed and widely read pro-democracy publications, Apple Daily, and arrested the editor in chief and other top executives, as well as those at the publication's parent company, Next Digital. When arrests continued yesterday and authorities arrested one of the paper's top opinion writers, the publication announced it would be closing immediately, citing staff safety concerns and the inability to pay salaries due to bank accounts being frozen.
Has the Great Firewall of China been expanded to include Hong Kong yet? Will VPNs even work for them?