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The US can't take military action in Hong Kong, because its handover to China was completely legal. You can thank the British for their short-sightnedness on t
by SkyMarshal 7y ago
The US can't take military action in Hong Kong, because its handover to China was completely legal. You can thank the British for their short-sightnedness on this one, but nothing the rest of the world can do, at least overtly. I see this fact repeatedly forgotten or overlooked in the brewhaha over HK.
- stevens32 7y agoAre we just going to ignore why Hong Kong was under British rule in the first place?
- SkyMarshal 7y agoThat's not necessary legally, since the legal handover is already sufficient to justify non-intervention. But of course the way Hong Kong was originally acquired at the point of a gun bolsters the moral/ethical case for both the legal handover and non-intervention.