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'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.
by 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