[Aric2000]

Once China pulls as much wealth out of Hong Kong as it has, then it will eye Taiwan even more strongly. If we allow it to take Taiwan, it will suck all the riches out of it as well, and then move on to another free market host.

It's economic system does not work, so it grabs a free market, sucks it for all it can then will move on to the next.

China is a viral infection, and it will continue to attack and destroy it's hosts until someone comes in and removes the parasitic organism.

We will have to do just that someday, it's just that today is not that day.

Hopefully we won't have to do it, maybe the people of China will wake up to the fact that it is their government and economic system that is holding them back.

The future is hard to see, but no doubts that the government of China must change or be destroyed, there are NO other options on that.

[HighRoadToChina]

I agree with your accessment. Communism is a cancer. It eats away at freedom and the free enterprise system. Unfortunately, the mainland Chinese people are already "boiled". The only chance for revolution would be for the peasants (80% of the Chinese population) to rise up and overthrow their depots. Funny, didn't Mao rise to power because he wanted to help the poor farmers...

And being a cancer, it will never stop until its dead or everything around it is consumed.