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Tom
is on page 217 of 288
‘China could have recovered Hong Kong much earlier if it wanted to - in 1949 when people’s revolution army troops stopped at the Hong Kong border…’ - it’s so irritating when historians are disingenuous like this - Chinese guards took over the border posts, that’s a small number of basically glorified policemen - that’s not an invading army pausing.
— May 29, 2024 08:37AM
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Tom
is on page 191 of 288
Tiananmen Square "sent the whole colony into mourning." People watched on TV, shocked, disgusted, and horrified. Almost one million people-many of them dressed in the traditional Chinese mourning colors of black and white, marched in the streets to support the fallen demonstrators. The cenotaph was covered with flowers and black flags. Many people donated blood.’ Must have been horrific watching across the border.
— May 29, 2024 09:20AM
Tom
is on page 222 of 288
‘Considering that the one country, two systems model was originally designed for Taiwan, ensuring a smooth reversion is also crucial for reunification with Taiwan: a failed reversion would hurt both economic relations with Taiwan and lead to stronger demands for independence there.’ And now we’ve got military exercises going on - great job - brutalising your own people for protesting alienates others? Who knew
— May 29, 2024 08:57AM
