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This is not accurate at all. If you want to make an American analogy, it's more like if Puerto Rico wanted independence from the US. Because the US kept violat
by the-pigeon 7y ago
This is not accurate at all.
If you want to make an American analogy, it's more like if Puerto Rico wanted independence from the US. Because the US kept violating it's citizens human rights.
That said Hong Kong is a fairly unique situation that doesn't accurately compare to any others in recent history.
- sho 7y agoI know it wasn't a good analogy; I couldn't think of a better one. Puerto Rico is not a better analogy. It's never been America proper and it's not even connected to the mainland. HK was China, it was occupied by force for a hundred years and now China has got it back. As far as China is concerned HK is China and that's the end of it. My analogy was flawed, yes, but nitpicking it doesn't really change the basic facts. I note that no-one is arguing that the Chinese don't think like I said.