> a country thousands of miles away had a temporary foothold on Chinese territory To effectively argue that "Hong Kong is of course part of China because it's

> a country thousands of miles away had a temporary foothold on Chinese territory To effectively argue that "Hong Kong is of course part of China because it's right next to it on the map" opens the gates to all kinds of jingoism. Just for the record, to me the Falkland war was a war between two imperialist countries. Contrary to what was popular belief among my peers back in the day, I did not and do not think Argentina has more rights to the Falklands than the UK just because it's "right next to it" and not "thousands of miles away" like the UK. China is always adamant that this or that region is "a natural part of China". For some reason people have to come to accept the state of affairs regarding Xinjiang, Tibet, the Spratly Islands. If they don't change their minds then there will be no stopping the fascist juggernaut. Mongolia, parts of northern India, Taiwan and Vietnam are to China what Belgium, Poland and so on were to the Germans in 1939.