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A route back? I doubt China is willing to free Hong Kong just to save tourism.
Hong Kong is a part of China. Always was, always will be Chinese land. The British Empire had failed, they stole the land but under Chinese might they ran away.
and I am the tooth fairy.
When i went there 2 weeks ago and the people i talk to end their sentences about the current situation by saying "Shhh". I wouldnt consider that very free...
As long as they're under the dominion of Han Chinese, that's what really matters, right? It couldn't be that people don't want any dominion at all, could it?
That people who desire self determination should be able to have it, that they should not be expected to be ruled by whomever is most powerful and happens to be ethnically similar. I think states should be based on a shared history and philosophy rather than ethnically segregating them to suit China.
No, I am proposing that sufficiently large groups of people have some right to self determination, to only be part of nations which they choose to be part of. I'm saying Hong Kong is culturally, philosophically, and historically distinct from the People's Republic of China at this point, and pretending they're not is silly. You're talking as if, like, Singapore doesn't exist, that if any city state exists that's somehow an absurdity.
Hong Kong has some shared history with China but not a shared philosophy. That's why there's the AND clause there. If you have shared history but not shared philosophy, it's merely imperialism with a patina of historicity, i.e., "we should own this because we did at one point, regardless of the wishes of the people." If you have shared philosophy but not shared history it may work out, but don't be surprised when different cultures within your state react to issues in ways that are informed by their differing histories.
You are effectively saying that you don't have an issue with colonialism, just that the wrong people were doing it before and now the right people can do it. I'm saying that the people of Hong Kong deserve self-determination if their political will is not represented in the state of the People's Republic of China, which it will not be.
So given a shared history, you’re good with Taiwan reunifying with the rest of China under the rule of the Taiwanese government?
Didn't you know, you can only be anti imperialist against Russia and China and some middle east countries( minus israel, because their god said that they can slaughter as many other humans as they want)
Don't you dare be anti imperialist against the US empire and it's European colonial proxies.
And didn't you know people from the global west are definitely not propogandised at all. Only the enemies of their colonial governments are propogandised because who wouldn't want the US empire and their proxies controlling their governmment, land, policies, resources, etc.?
I'm sorry. I should have put a /s at the end of my comments
These chuds embrace Russia and Chinese imperialism with arms wide open.
Hot take is not simping for authoritarianism.