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PRC/CCP cares a lot about "face". "Taking over Taiwan" is much less important than saying they control Taiwan but grant local autonomy.
by gowld 6y ago
PRC/CCP cares a lot about "face". "Taking over Taiwan" is much less important than saying they control Taiwan but grant local autonomy.
- monocasa 6y ago'Face' gets overblown. If all they cared about was face, they wouldn't be stacking the Hong Kong Parliament and taking the geopolitical capital hit for it.
- weswpg 6y agoThe US military doesn't sell weaponry to HK nor does it have a defence treaty like they do with Taiwan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-American_Mutual_Defense_Treaty https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-American_Mutual_Defense... imposing control on Hong Kong happened because it did not require high-stakes combat with a nuclear peer competitor