05-11-2020, 07:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-11-2020, 07:33 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
(05-10-2020, 10:38 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: Sunday's street protests in Hong Kong make it clear that the chaos in Hong Kong is going to return full force. The CCP will have to take Hong Kong by force when they take Taiwan by force.
Still think both the US starting a land war in Asia or China starting a sea war with the US are futile and unlikely. China going into Hong Kong is different. They could do it if they want.
But China isn't a communist state anymore, really. The economy is in the hands of the capitalists. Do you kill a place optimized for them?
Perhaps more important, China endured chaos for a long time. It perhaps lasted from the Opium Wars to the Great Leap Forward. They have avoided anything that would return them to that time. Would it be worth the risk? Would going in now be a way to avoid that risk?
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.