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Have you ever heard of Tibet?
by robinwhg 7mo ago
Have you ever heard of Tibet?
- randomNumber7 7mo agoThis is more than 40 years ago and they likely didn't need many bombs for it.
- LunaSea 7mo agoHave you heard of Hong Kong?
- insane_dreamer 7mo agobe it far from me to defend China, but it didn't take over HK -- the UK's treaty expired and it had to return it; it was always going to be the case China has a highly authoritarian government that affords its citizens no political freedom (economic freedom, yes, so long as it aligns with the CCP), and is very dangerous (much more so than Russia even); but when it comes to _foreign policy_ despite the sabre-rattling over the 9 dash line, it has so far performed much better (or smarter, one might say) than the US
- LunaSea 7mo agoRead the dates again, the date for integration of Hong Kong into China wasn't 2020.