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Which, surely, explains why tourism in the rest of the Bay Area is shooting up?
While there is a political component to it, the real issue is that the HKD is too strong now and the cost of touristing in HK is very visible.
The truth. And it is true of their leadership too.
Not that I mind. Propagandized people make uninformed decisions, so I don’t even care to correct them.
True. The US massacred tens of thousands in Afghanistan only to replace the Taliban with the Taliban, and it looks like it is preparing to do the same in Yemen.
It is awful and unforgivable. But the US is weakening itself with every decades-long and losing invasion it starts.
Winning isn't measured by who kills the most innocents. Otherwise the US would have won in Vietnam. The US is evidently and clearly in decline despite its military might.
I'm hoping that Iran develops nuclear bombs soon. You don't see the US threatening DPRK.
A route back? I doubt China is willing to free Hong Kong just to save tourism.
Hong Kong is a part of China. Always was, always will be Chinese land. The British Empire had failed, they stole the land but under Chinese might they ran away.
and I am the tooth fairy.
nah, you're just an ignoramus, good news is that you can always choose to stop being one by educating yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWgQPHKT0wQ
edit: 👋 at all the mad colonizer chuds mashing that downvote button, seethe and cope pests
When i went there 2 weeks ago and the people i talk to end their sentences about the current situation by saying "Shhh". I wouldnt consider that very free...
That people who desire self determination should be able to have it, that they should not be expected to be ruled by whomever is most powerful and happens to be ethnically similar. I think states should be based on a shared history and philosophy rather than ethnically segregating them to suit China.
No, I am proposing that sufficiently large groups of people have some right to self determination, to only be part of nations which they choose to be part of. I'm saying Hong Kong is culturally, philosophically, and historically distinct from the People's Republic of China at this point, and pretending they're not is silly. You're talking as if, like, Singapore doesn't exist, that if any city state exists that's somehow an absurdity.
Hong Kong has some shared history with China but not a shared philosophy. That's why there's the AND clause there. If you have shared history but not shared philosophy, it's merely imperialism with a patina of historicity, i.e., "we should own this because we did at one point, regardless of the wishes of the people." If you have shared philosophy but not shared history it may work out, but don't be surprised when different cultures within your state react to issues in ways that are informed by their differing histories.
You are effectively saying that you don't have an issue with colonialism, just that the wrong people were doing it before and now the right people can do it. I'm saying that the people of Hong Kong deserve self-determination if their political will is not represented in the state of the People's Republic of China, which it will not be.
So given a shared history, you’re good with Taiwan reunifying with the rest of China under the rule of the Taiwanese government?
I'm sorry. I should have put a /s at the end of my comments