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The only reason Hong Kong has had this period of independence is a side effect of western power subjugating the Chinese mainland. As the Chinese mainland grows
by kingkawn 5y ago
The only reason Hong Kong has had this period of independence is a side effect of western power subjugating the Chinese mainland. As the Chinese mainland grows in global power and the west decays into internal squabbles there should be no expectation that the pretenses of western power will remain intact.
- VictorPath 5y agoYes, the UK (with US help) stole Hong Kong from China to help in its effort to turn Chinese people into drug addicts during the Opium wars. It's why they killed Chinese in Hong Kong in 1967 protesting the UK occupation (a few years later the UK gunned down unarmed protestors in Derry marching against British internment camps). Watched the liberation of Kabul from foreign imperialists last month and have to laugh at the pious western liberal imperial impotent ramblings I see here.
- kingkawn 5y agoI think I'm being downvoted out of some sense of political duty to Hong Kong from westerners, but really there has been nothing holding the mainland back other than the threat of western power. If there is no threat, there is nothing that will hold them back, whether we find it tasteful or not.