> China has a righteous claim on HK Why exactly? Modern China itself was formed from wars of imperial conquest. That these conquests by force happened long ago

> China has a righteous claim on HK Why exactly? Modern China itself was formed from wars of imperial conquest. That these conquests by force happened long ago doesn't make them any “more righteous” than the British conquest of HK over 100 years ago. By your logic, Germany had a “righteous claim” on Austria, Hungary, and at least parts of Poland in the late 1930s.