The situation in HK is ripe for violence. HK residents have accused the PRC of violating their 1984 agreement to "One Country, Two Systems" by eroding HK residents rights. PRC is cracking down in the name of "public safety". They have declared protesting counter to public order and are attempting to install some very vague laws under the guise of fighting "terrorism". It's an approach repeated throughout history. We will see what happens.
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Honk Kong - Ripe for some shit to go down
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52824839
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told Congress that Hong Kong no longer merits special treatment under US law.
The declaration could have major implications for Hong Kong's trade hub status and is likely to anger Beijing.
"No reasonable person can assert today that Hong Kong maintains a high degree of autonomy from China, given facts on the ground," he said in a statement.
It follows Beijing's plan to impose a controversial new security law on the territory.
The security law was "only the latest in a series of actions that fundamentally undermine Hong Kong's autonomy and freedoms," Mr Pompeo said.
"It is now clear that China is modelling Hong Kong after itself," he added.
It also means the HKers might feel abandoned but they knew this was coming and it's necessary for the greater war.
Is this the opening shot of WWIII?
The US got into WWII by imposing an airplane-parts embargo on the Empire of Japan in 1938 because they were bombing civilians in China. This went tit-for-tat until the Oil Embargo which ended as we all know on Dec 7 1941 when the Japanese were either going to have to end their war in Manchukuo or go to war with Britan, France, the Netherlands, Australia, and the United States in order to get oil from the Dutch East Indies (Java and Sumatra modern-day Indonesia).
I feel bad for the HKers but it's gotta be.
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Not exactly THE beginning, but this started years ago.
The beginning of the Democracy Protests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests
There's more at stake here than PRC ownership of HK. It's a world financial center with huge implications in global trade.
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Originally posted by SanDiegoCJ View Post
Like one of Obama's "sternly worded warnings" ?
Now, before people here get their titties in a flutter...………………………… that was sarcasm.
Math is hard.Comment
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Originally posted by Pony_Driver View PostNot exactly THE beginning, but this started years ago.
The beginning of the Democracy Protests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests
There's more at stake here than PRC ownership of HK. It's a world financial center with huge implications in global trade.
PRC basically gets all of their FDI through HK, they steal protected Intellectual Property through HK, they import and export through HK.... and much more. Trump just shut that faucet off.
Here's the next Nuclear Option rushing through the Congress right now,
Unanimous.
Problem is, it gives them 3 years to comply, but a House revision could move that time-table up.
With the elections on, nobody wants to be the one arguing to play nice with the Chinese.
Shit's all long overdue. I say blockade them now. Ya'll don't need no more HF crap.
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Originally posted by Pony_Driver View PostNot exactly THE beginning, but this started years ago.
The beginning of the Democracy Protests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests
There's more at stake here than PRC ownership of HK. It's a world financial center with huge implications in global trade.
If you don't want to read the book, I'm sure you'll get the needed picture from this lecture. It comes with pretty pictures too..
Last edited by Action Fab; 05-28-2020, 12:16 PM.Comment
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Originally posted by flecker View Post
Meh, the engrish leased it for 100 years, they were always going to get HK back... now they are doing what they have been doing and people are shocked and confused.
Math is hard.Non LemmingComment
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Originally posted by SanDiegoCJ View Post
Actually the lease was for the "New Territories" for 99 years. Hong Kong itself wasn't a lease, and neither was Kowloon.Comment
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Originally posted by evernoob View Post
It's not The Beginning, but it is the first Nuclear Option.
PRC basically gets all of their FDI through HK, they steal protected Intellectual Property through HK, they import and export through HK.... and much more. Trump just shut that faucet off.
Here's the next Nuclear Option rushing through the Congress right now,
Unanimous.
Problem is, it gives them 3 years to comply, but a House revision could move that time-table up.
With the elections on, nobody wants to be the one arguing to play nice with the Chinese.
Shit's all long overdue. I say blockade them now. Ya'll don't need no more HF crap.
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Originally posted by flecker View Post
On June 9, 1898, the British under Queen Victoria brokered a99-year lease agreementfor the use of Hong Kong after China lost a series of wars fought over the British trade in tea and opium... actually, it was leased.
In 1860, at the end of the Second Opium War, the UK gained a perpetual lease over the Kowloon Peninsula, which is the mainland Chinese area just across the strait from Hong Kong Island. This agreement was part of the Convention of Beijing that ended that conflict.[citation needed]
In 1898, the British and Chinese governments signed the Second Convention of Peking, which included a 99-year lease agreement for the islands surrounding Hong Kong, called the "New Territories". The lease awarded control of more than 200 surrounding small islands to the British. In return, China received a promise that the islands would be returned to it after 99 years, at the end of the single negotiated term of lease.[citation needed]
On 19 December 1984, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, in which Britain agreed to return not only the New Territories but also Kowloon and Hong Kong itself when the lease term expired. China promised to implement a "One Country, Two Systems" regime, under which for fifty years Hong Kong citizens could continue to practice capitalism and political freedoms forbidden on the mainland.[citation needed]
Kowloon was a perpetual lease, which is a defacto cede of territory.Non LemmingComment
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Originally posted by flecker View Post
On June 9, 1898, the British under Queen Victoria brokered a99-year lease agreementfor the use of Hong Kong after China lost a series of wars fought over the British trade in tea and opium... actually, it was leased.Comment
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