underthebus

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by underthebus 7y ago
> to protest a bill that would allow the government to extradite suspected criminals to mainland China, a violation of their democratic freedom. I stopped reading after this because, frankly this sort of claim is not journalism. It'
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by underthebus 7y ago
I'm not sure that "colonial governor suggested it" is the same as "Britain tried"...
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by underthebus 7y ago
HK courts would have decided whether to extradite to the mainland in the same way they do now when deciding whether to extradite to the US or any other country HK has an extradition treaty with. China has also extradition treaties with some
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by underthebus 7y ago
The British handed back HK to China and China said they would keep it largely autonomous for 50 years. That's what happening and I don't remember that the Chinese government tried to renege on this. But again, ultimately this is a
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by underthebus 7y ago
"One country, two systems" is a domestic policy of China. It's not any other country's business. People seem to be outraged by vague allegations of Russian meddling in other countries' affairs but China should be tr
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by underthebus 7y ago
> Making a second Tiananmen Square painful for Beijing is not That would be in no-one's interests. Immediately after the Tiananmen Square events in 1989 the US sent a high ranking general to Beijing to reassure the Chinese that this
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by underthebus 7y ago
Historical reality cannot be dismissed as 'nonsense'. > I have no idea what this refers to. You are arguing on a topic you obviously know very little about and that you don't understand, judging by your nebulous comments.
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by underthebus 7y ago
> Look you’re just repeating the same nonsense they are. I am describing the historical reality. I think the point of HN is to be able to do that without receiving insults in return. > They are two separate countries regardless of wha
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by underthebus 7y ago
That's not knowing China. There is a public opinion and a strong one on these issues. It's not faked. As mentioned Chinese nationalism is what created today's China, not the other way round. The very existence of Hong Kong as
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by underthebus 7y ago
> The PRC has never governed Taiwan yet essentially no governments call their imperialism what it is and tacitly accept their “unification” language. Taiwan is internationally recognised as being part of China. What happened is that the
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by underthebus 7y ago
Patriotism and nationalism are strong in China and this is not because of the government. In fact the government is an expression of this, not the cause. China was attacked, invaded, humiliated from the end of the 18th century until 1945. T
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by underthebus 7y ago
> The protests are over a law allowing China to extradite people without any process. That is not true that there would not have been any process. There would have been a full legal process like any extradition: I.e. extradition would ha
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by underthebus 7y ago
Trying to claim that these 2 million people campaign for HK independence is not honest.
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by underthebus 7y ago
This is not necessarily a bad thing for the protesters in HK. Considering the humiliation that the colonisation of HK had been for 100+ years and the resulting nationalistic tendency of the people, if CCTV (Chinese state TV) had shown the p
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by underthebus 7y ago
> Even if I wish they could just gain independence, it seems unlikely, and it's not like any foreign power would go to war to protect HK. I never understood this. Why would HK gain 'independence'? Why would a foreign power
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by underthebus 7y ago
That's equally disingenuous. HK is not a frontier of any 'cold war'. What is happening is that some forces are trying to use HK to create problems for the Chinese government because China is getting too powerful for the estab
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by underthebus 7y ago
Hongkong is part of the PRC. Its situation has no similarity whatsoever with West Berlin's.
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by underthebus 7y ago
What's happened is indefensible. Democracy and the rule of law is not to "make demands" then riot and storm the local parliament, with people flying foreign flags. Foreign media tend to actually be very sympathetic to the pro
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by underthebus 7y ago
I don't see what's civil in what's happened...
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by underthebus 7y ago
The government might have let them do it knowing how badly that would reflect on the movement. That does mean they organise it themselves, which looks far fetched. Having a single guy infiltrated to hang the flag? Maybe. However it seems it
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by underthebus 7y ago
It's difficult to understand the aim here. This is clearly planned violence and destruction and raising a foreign colonial flag does not look like a smart thing to do. I understand that the protesters are said to be very young and may