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A better example is Puerto Rico. If they had a referendum that showed a clear desire for independence, the US would almost certainly let them leave.
by learc83 7y ago
A better example is Puerto Rico. If they had a referendum that showed a clear desire for independence, the US would almost certainly let them leave.
- spinach 7y agoEven better example would be Hawaii state, previously the Hawaiian Kingdom. I doubt America would let Hawaii go.
- learc83 7y agoIf it was still a semi autonomous region, and a high enough percentage of the entire population wanted independence, yeah we probably would.
- mytailorisrich 7y agoPuerto Rico is a 'foreign colony', so to speak, that the US 'acquired' in the first place following the war against Spain in 1898. Hongkong is a core part of China that was wrestled away by a foreign power. There is no analogy within the US for Hongkong because the US have always been sucking in territory since they were founded, and never had any territory taken away. A similar situation would be if the Japanese Navy had forced the US to sign the Cape Cod area, or parts of Long Island over to Japan, and then imagine what Americans would think of that.
- WillPostForFood 7y agoChina, like every single country in the world, does not have an inherent "core". All its territory was acquired by war, expansion, colonization, and settling. China simply has a couple thousand year head start on the new world.
- mytailorisrich 7y agoAnd if we go far enough in the past no current country even existed... That's true, and that also completely irrelevant, and may even be disingenuous rhetoric.
- WillPostForFood 7y agoNo, it is disingenuous to say that China has some inherent claim on places like Tibet because they may have occupied it at some point in the past. China's borders, like most countries, have changed over time and doesn't validate any present day claim.
- mytailorisrich 7y agoI've commented about valid American analogies to what Hongkong is to China and you're accusing me of claiming that China has an "inherent claim over Tibet"? Right... I've nothing more to add.
- WillPostForFood 7y agoNo, but you are using the same phraseology, "core part of China" that China uses to claim Tibet, Taiwan, the South China Sea, Xinjiang, etc.