It means pro-Western empire. Hong Kong was occupied by Britain and only developed a “pro-democracy/anti-China” movement when the British decided to develop it as a leave-behind spoiler when they realized they had no legal basis to extend their lease of the island past 1999
Timing like this isn’t an accident. Here are three possible meanings, I wonder if there are more:
I think there’s ample evidence against that hypothesis. Cost overruns and project cancellations abound in the US MIC. From Minutemen nukes to fighter jets to hypersonic missiles, nothings is really going right. As we saw in West Asia, the USA doesn’t even have enough body armor for its forces, and it certainly can’t care for its casualties. There’s really no way it’s going to win a war that it has to go literally to the other side of the planet to conduct. It will be so heavily dependent on vassals, like The Philippines, Japan, and occupied Korea that every single thing it does will be done in a way that is completely fragile and smothered with paranoia if not constant sabotage.
As far as I’m concerned, all the military strategists who believe that the window for winning a war against China is closing are only taking into account paper capabilities and not taking into account the USA’s inability to actually produce, maintain, and deliver those capabilities in a sustained conflict. To me, that means the window is likely closed. Then take into account that both China and Russia have been very successful in counter-intelligence and the intelligence fiasco that is Ukraine and I don’t think the US military strategists are even working with an accurate picture of China’s capabilities and capacities. I fully believe the window has closed and it’s just going to take some time for the reality on the ground to reach the strategists.
Got it. You do know how ignorant you sound - you’re just OK with it.
China doesn’t need the USA’s technology anymore as they are absolutely dominant globally in the supermajority of high tech research
Jesus, do you have any idea how ignorant you sound?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole-process_people's_democracy
Or in the a.i. remake of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Will be given access, right? No way they would give access during this epic spat
we need to stay the course
Sunk cost fallacy. The trade war is a collossal mistake on the part of the US. It can accomplish nothing. Trump’s entire strategy was based on the idea of tarrifs being more undesirable for his opponents than for him. He was wrong.
China is not worried if the US issues a full embargo on Chinese exports to the USA. China’s focus is on the rest of the world when it comes to trade and it’s only focus on the US is worrying about US military adventures that it needs to defend against.
As for Hong Kong, you mean the city that England stole from China when they devastated them after getting half their people addicted to opium because it was the only thing the English could figure out how to sell? You mean the city that was run as an oppressive colony by brutal British governors until they realized they were finally going to have to give the city back and then decided to do a complete propaganda/indoctrination move, enrich token Hong Kongers, “enhance” the already existing indoctrination in schools that worshipped British “civilization” and propagandized their captive audience to fear and loathe their own countrymen? That Hong Kong situation that China has successfully worked through so far in a processes of integration, deradicalization, and respect? That situation? Where the protests in Hong Kong saw protestors throwing fire bombs at police force weeks on end but never escalated into a police riot like what happens in the US? That situation?
You, Steve, are a full blown nincompoop
These “land grabs” were literally Russia delivering consequences to the US for their constant escalation. The annexation of Crimea followed the Euromaidan coup that saw John McCain and Victoria Nuland on the ground and in the planning of how the far right on Ukraine would take over and set the stage for NATO nuclear capabilities coming to the Ukraine-Russia border. Joint operations between NATO and Ukraine started at the end of 2013. Over the next several years these exercises saw B-52 strategic nuclear bombers flying in Ukraine, a simulated invasion of Kaliningrad, and open ethnic cleansing of ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine.
Your framing of the US/West needing to “respond” to “Russian aggression” is so far removed from reality it’s literally an inversion. Until you are capable of seeing the aggression of the USA, you will not be capable of analyzing what’s actually happening.
No you don’t. Hong Kong was occupied by the British, brutally. You were never occupied, you are the occupier living in an anglo state based on British common law. No one ever force-fed your school children propaganda glorifying your occupier and villifying your fellow countrymen. None of your countrymen ever worked tireless for half a century to ensure the occupier would leave and then worked diligently to give your fellow tortured and estranged brethren a path that allowed you to maintain self-governance even with elements of the occupier’s culture just to ensure you felt safe and respected in one country with two systems.
You know nothing about what the Hong Kongers felt, throwing Molotov cocktails and police forces that spent weeks defusing the situation with as little violence as they could manage. You live in an occupier culture where your police literally itch for the opportunity to crack the skulls of hippies, liberals, blacks, Muslims, and anyone else they think is beneath them
You have no idea what you’re talking about and even less of an idea of what the Hong Kongers are talking about. If you really cared about them, you would research their history and understand what they’ve been through. Instead, you just read your domestic propaganda that villifies one group and glorifies another group of the same peoples continuing the terrible legacy of the British occupation, but you don’t care about that.