And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If you understand their history and the current situation... the HK protesters are like the 1776 American Patriots. Most Americans don't take time to read/educate/understand the situation between Mainland China and Hong Kong. Very interesting situation going into 2047.
China will only relent if they have no other option, probably having something to do with a crashing economy and a military spread too thin from Hong Kong to Taiwan the South China Sea to Taiwan to North Korea. Trump's trade tariffs will help. But I don't foresee a good outcome, although my hopes and my strong admiration are with the protesters. They are a brave lot - some of them would be better Americans than many already here, sad to say.
The real problem for Hong Kong is that it will be governed by the Communist Mainland in 2047. Here is the history.
Mainland is communist while Hong Kong has a limited democracy. Both share President Xi Jinping of China as their chief of state. However, each has its own head of government. At midnight on June 30/July 1, 1997, the crown colony of Hong Kong officially reverted to Chinese sovereignty, ending 156 years of British rule. Great Britain had acquired Hong Kong Island from China in 1842, when the Treaty of Nanking was signed at the end of the first Opium War (1839-42).
"The Basic Law" came into effect on 1 July 1997 in Hong Kong when the sovereignty over Hong Kong was transferred from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China, replacing Hong Kong's colonial constitution of the Letters Patent and the Royal Instructions
The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China is the constitution of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and a national law of the People's Republic of China comprising nine chapters, 160 articles and three annexes, the Basic Law was adopted on 4 April 1990 by the Seventh National People's Congress and signed by President Yang Shangkun.
Under The Basic Law, Hong Kong would continue its capitalist system and way of life for 50 years after 1997, ending in 2047 and then coming under mainland's rule.
HK currently defers to mainland China in military defense and international relations.
Pat said it in 1775 but I hope those poor b3stards don't have to go to the wall like the Tian an men square guys did. Of course, that's the way it worked out in our revolution. Jump in early and get the chop but then you get confronted with that famous line by jFK. Ask not what your country can do for you..... The Chinese believe in infinite malice and the will of heaven and they don't care what godless commies say. It is their way or the highway.
If you understand their history and the current situation... the HK protesters are like the 1776 American Patriots. Most Americans don't take time to read/educate/understand the situation between Mainland China and Hong Kong. Very interesting situation going into 2047.
ReplyDeleteChina will only relent if they have no other option, probably having something to do with a crashing economy and a military spread too thin from Hong Kong to Taiwan the South China Sea to Taiwan to North Korea. Trump's trade tariffs will help. But I don't foresee a good outcome, although my hopes and my strong admiration are with the protesters. They are a brave lot - some of them would be better Americans than many already here, sad to say.
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DeleteThe real problem for Hong Kong is that it will be governed by the Communist Mainland in 2047. Here is the history.
Mainland is communist while Hong Kong has a limited democracy. Both share President Xi Jinping of China as their chief of state. However, each has its own head of government. At midnight on June 30/July 1, 1997, the crown colony of Hong Kong officially reverted to Chinese sovereignty, ending 156 years of British rule. Great Britain had acquired Hong Kong Island from China in 1842, when the Treaty of Nanking was signed at the end of the first Opium War (1839-42).
"The Basic Law" came into effect on 1 July 1997 in Hong Kong when the sovereignty over Hong Kong was transferred from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China, replacing Hong Kong's colonial constitution of the Letters Patent and the Royal Instructions
The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China is the constitution of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and a national law of the People's Republic of China comprising nine chapters, 160 articles and three annexes, the Basic Law was adopted on 4 April 1990 by the Seventh National People's Congress and signed by President Yang Shangkun.
Under The Basic Law, Hong Kong would continue its capitalist system and way of life for 50 years after 1997, ending in 2047 and then coming under mainland's rule.
HK currently defers to mainland China in military defense and international relations.
Pat said it in 1775 but I hope those poor b3stards don't have to go to the wall like the Tian an men square guys did. Of course, that's the way it worked out in our revolution. Jump in early and get the chop but then you get confronted with that famous line by jFK. Ask not what your country can do for you..... The Chinese believe in infinite malice and the will of heaven and they don't care what godless commies say. It is their way or the highway.
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