palmotea 5 days ago

There's also the whole South China sea thing, where they're making claims on international waters and the territorial waters of their neighbors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So...

But I have a feeling your position is basically "Except for all the cases where they're threatening their neighbors, they're not threatening their neighbors at all."

  • 1over137 5 days ago

    >I have a feeling your position is basically...

    No, not at all. I don't follow China closely, and was genuinely asking.

lenerdenator 5 days ago

Pretty much anything that happens to abut the South China Sea.

I suppose you could also make the argument that they already did invade Tibet and Hong Kong, though that's splitting hairs.

  • RobotToaster 5 days ago

    Hong Kong was always Chinese, and was leased at gun point.

    • lostlogin 5 days ago

      The government that leased it couldn’t really have less to do with the government that took it over in recent times. Things got considerably worse for Hong Kong, and the citizens didn’t want to join China.

      It’s certainly not a given that donating it to China was the right call.

      • _carbyau_ 5 days ago

        > It’s certainly not a given that donating it to China was the right call.

        The right call for who?

        For the people there? Not good.

        For a contracting British empire facing a clearly growing-in-power China it was a graceful exit without military conflict.

        • lostlogin 5 days ago

          Good point, maybe I have questions about the ‘graceful’ bit though.

    • lenerdenator 5 days ago

      And now the agreement that they'd be given a more liberalistic government is being torn up at gun point.