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What are some of the broken promises? I'm not well informed on the subject and now you've got me really curious.

• credit_guy 2y ago
  The promise that everything will be fine in Hong Kong?
  • guappa 2y ago
    I think "fine" and "you can ignore laws" aren't precisely identical in all cases.
    • illiac786 2y ago
      “fine” and “you can enact any law you want on people because you are not accountable to them” also isn’t really the same. (Not that trump’s accountability is particularly high… but there’s some hope he’ll be gone in 4 years, whereas the situation is different in china)
      • SlightlyLeftPad 2y ago
        Please don’t normalize the idea of elimination of nearly century-long term limits that are there for good reasons.
        • illiac786 2y ago
          I 100% agree that the biggest damage Trump has done (so far) is normalizing a new (toxic/noxious) behavior for politicians. And everyone in the US should try to remember, every day, that this is NOT normal, and it should not become the new normal. I was being provocative a bit, to help remember it CAN get worse and we shouldn’t just ride it out.
• lantry 2y ago
  The post mentions Hong Kong, which is something like this: - Hong Kong was ceded to the UK after the opium wars in 1842 - The British returned it in 1997, under an agreement that its economic and political systems wouldn't change for 50 years - starting in the 2010s (less than 20 years later), the PRC has been pressuring the Hong Kong government to drop colonial-era democratic reforms, extradite critics of China, and in general curtail civil liberties. Presumably OP is referring to the PRCs actions to integrate Hong Kong before 50 years have elapsed. I'm not an expert here, this is just my layman understanding from reading American news
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