> Taiwan would look much more like Hong Kong than the West likes to think. I think you are right that there are significant ties between the people of Taiwan

> Taiwan would look much more like Hong Kong than the West likes to think. I think you are right that there are significant ties between the people of Taiwan and China. I don't know what the "West" thinks so I'm not confident talking about that. What I know that all of your points about familiar, professional and other ties also stand for the Ukraine-Russia relationship. But the invasion doesn't seem to be going like Hong Kong for Russia, does it?