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View silvertop's Profile silvertop Flag Portishead 15 Aug 19 2.07pm Send a Private Message to silvertop Add silvertop as a friend

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

Good points.

Yes but errr didn't the USA throw us out...?

 

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deleted user Flag 15 Aug 19 3.02pm

While I know Trump often appears infatuated with leaders that brutalise their people, I'm not sure that his support of Chinese President Xi Jinping dealing with the Hong Kong protests 'quickly and humanely' would actually pan out that way.

 

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Originally posted by silvertop

Yes but errr didn't the USA throw us out...?

What's that got to do with it?

Besides the US was basically us both genetically and culturally.

 


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Hugh from 'On the Offensive' correctly explains why Hong Kong is completely screwed.....once we signed off in 1997 this was always going to happen.

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Originally posted by Stirlingsays

Hugh from 'On the Offensive' correctly explains why Hong Kong is completely screwed.....once we signed off in 1997 this was always going to happen.

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In fairness what else could we do. The alternative was the Chinese just marching in and taking over we would not have been able to stop them.

It's a horrible situation but I don't think anyone has an answer.

 


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deleted user Flag 29 Aug 19 10.09pm

Originally posted by Badger11



In fairness what else could we do.
The alternative was the Chinese just marching in and taking over we would not have been able to stop them.

It's a horrible situation but I don't think anyone has an answer.

I don't disagree, but at the same time their democratic values are well aligned with ours and will likely soon be obliterated. At a time like this the true worth of democracy must be so abundantly clear to them. It's sad to see them waving the Union Jack flag, and knowing that what is likely coming may well be gut wrenching. I'm not saying that we're to blame at all, just that what is happening is an attack on people both allied to us and also our shared values.

 

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Originally posted by Badger11

In fairness what else could we do. The alternative was the Chinese just marching in and taking over we would not have been able to stop them.

It's a horrible situation but I don't think anyone has an answer.

Yep I agree.....though not feeding the tiger would help...with Trump being the first and only westerner who has even sniffed at that.

The video is basically a warning about the Chinese while explaining how they run all things China.

 


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Originally posted by Badger11

In fairness what else could we do. The alternative was the Chinese just marching in and taking over we would not have been able to stop them.

It's a horrible situation but I don't think anyone has an answer.

My wife had to spend an unexpected night in a Hotel in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong a week ago when her flight connection was missed. I was more worried than she was as I was aware of what was going on around her, but she witnessed nothing at all. I passed through the airport a few weeks prior to this and saw no sign of anything.

The last time I spent any time there was 3 years ago and you could sense this coming. The HK Chinese have little time for "mainlanders" who they regard as uncouth and uneducated, or at least those who arrive by the bus load to shop there.

I cannot though see China wanting to change the character of HK that much. What would it's purpose be if it wasn't a hub for the international financial communities and a major transport and shipping hub too? There has already been quite an exodus to Singapore and I am not sure they would want to see too much more.

I think they will accelerate their take over of all the institutions and style of government and insist we all regard HK as Chinese and not an ex British colony but will allow it's different culture to continue.

I hope so. There are some cracking good bowling clubs there, a decent cricket pitch and some good football and rugby stadiums as well.

 

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Some people!....Honestly it beggars belief.

The Chinese have been resettling HK with Han Chinese for years now. They know exactly how they will be dealing with this problem....similar to how the Chinese have dealt with Tibet.

That's just one of the many reasons why HK activists are rising up.....they aren't idiots, they know exactly what's coming down the pipe.

But never mind eh.....I'm sure that in decades time....the Han Chinese in Hong Kong will just transfer their loyalties to the Hong Kong system and everyone will be fine.

You know....the Chinese will just become Democratic......Errr...wasn't this what the neo liberals were saying twenty/thirty years ago to justify their investments.....These people are cancer.....They are the worse type of traitor.

Some people are so unbelievable that you have to think it's deliberate.


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W12 02 Sep 19 2.32pm

I'm sure many of the same people bemoaning the crackdown in Hong Kong will be the same people advocating for gun laws in the US and advocating for Socialism.

Try asking the Hong Kong protesters whether they would prefer to be armed with something more than an umbrella and what they think of socialism right now.

 

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deleted user Flag 02 Sep 19 2.39pm

Originally posted by W12

I'm sure many of the same people bemoaning the crackdown in Hong Kong will be the same people advocating for gun laws in the US and advocating for Socialism.

Try asking the Hong Kong protesters whether they would prefer to be armed with something more than an umbrella and what they think of socialism right now.

That's something I view as one of the only pluses of gun ownership really. People laugh off the idea of protecting yourself against the tyranny of the government, but it's something Americans at least are able to laugh about precisely because they are armed.

 

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The Hong Kong population is overwhelmingly Han Chinese, so the Tibet comparison is completely wrong.

Since 1997 there has been considerable immigration from China into Hong Kong, mostly from Fukien province, who are also Han Chinese. These more recent arrivals are generally very pro Beijing and therefore support the Hong Kong government which does what Beijing tells it to as Hong Kong is and has been part of China since 1997.

Whatever happens between now and 2047, the treaty states that ,that is the date when " one country, two systems " comes to an end.

In most countries the response against the " protestors " would have been much more robust. We have fully tooled up groups with helmets, gas masks, iron bars, wheel barrows loads of bricks and petrol bombs attacking police.

Latest thing is to go into subway stations, intimidate the staff smash up ticketing machines and what ever they can find.

This is now nothing to do with the proposed Extradition Bill which has been cancelled.

There was no democracy or self determination when Hong Kong was a Colony.

What I here of BBC and Sky News coverage is very biased.

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

Some people!....Honestly it beggars belief.

The Chinese have been resettling HK with Han Chinese for years now. They know exactly how they will be dealing with this problem....similar to how the Chinese have dealt with Tibet.

That's just one of the many reasons why HK activists are rising up.....they aren't idiots, they know exactly what's coming down the pipe.

But never mind eh.....I'm sure that in decades time....the Han Chinese in Hong Kong will just transfer their loyalties to the Hong Kong system and everyone will be fine.

You know....the Chinese will just become Democratic......Errr...wasn't this what the neo liberals were saying twenty/thirty years ago to justify their investments.....These people are cancer.....They are the worse type of traitor.

Some people are so unbelievable that you have to think it's deliberate.


Edited by Stirlingsays (31 Aug 2019 9.15pm)

 


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