Comment by lenerdenator

Comment by lenerdenator 5 days ago

5 replies

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.