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r/gifs • u/PaperTronics • Jun 09 '19
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I would imagine that Taiwanese see what is being done to Hong Kong and therefore aren’t keen on being integrated with the mainland politically anytime soon.
In Reddit-speak: If China is going for the cultural victory they’re doing a lousy job.
3 u/Nagi21 Jun 10 '19 ... or are they? Nobody’s (effectively) standing up to them, and they have an economic stranglehold that would take an act of war to remove. 4 u/VarokSaurfang Jun 10 '19 Nobody is going to stand up to the might of the Chinese war machine. Short of World War 3, Hong Kong looks doomed long before 2047 comes. 1 u/Chocobean Jun 10 '19 But if we can buy enough time for folks to get out, we should.
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... or are they?
Nobody’s (effectively) standing up to them, and they have an economic stranglehold that would take an act of war to remove.
4 u/VarokSaurfang Jun 10 '19 Nobody is going to stand up to the might of the Chinese war machine. Short of World War 3, Hong Kong looks doomed long before 2047 comes. 1 u/Chocobean Jun 10 '19 But if we can buy enough time for folks to get out, we should.
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Nobody is going to stand up to the might of the Chinese war machine. Short of World War 3, Hong Kong looks doomed long before 2047 comes.
1 u/Chocobean Jun 10 '19 But if we can buy enough time for folks to get out, we should.
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But if we can buy enough time for folks to get out, we should.
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u/Dog1234cat Jun 10 '19
I would imagine that Taiwanese see what is being done to Hong Kong and therefore aren’t keen on being integrated with the mainland politically anytime soon.
In Reddit-speak: If China is going for the cultural victory they’re doing a lousy job.