Posted on 07/30/2019 9:12:15 PM PDT by cba123
If anything happens they will strike first. Use cyber war to knock out the electrical grid and take down the internet. Next hit the usa with bio weapons—both sicknesses they could inflect people in inner cities and livestock. Cattle taken out with hove and mouth. Spread political discord with Media. Hit hard like a Pearl Harbor and use allies like Iran, North Korea, Cuba, etc... First big target Panama Canal. Hit Guam and Okinawa with nerve gas. They would want to sink us in 48 hours—If they fail—we get to strike back. If Trump is still alive he will make they pay in a big way. Hope I am wrong.
Need to send all the Chinese students studying in the USA back home too...
I buy that!!
There is nothing we can do over there.. Since Britain gave Hong Kong back to China. It is all over but the shouting.. It’s their territory.. Are they breaking some rule? China I mean?
Unfortunately there is reason to be nervous.
There is no reason Hong Kong should be under PRC sovereignty.
It was a dirty trick played on Hong Kong.
They never asked to be under ChiCom rule.
The joint Declaration is an international treaty.
One party has broken it, the ChiComs, it is therefore an international issue. UK in fact has an obligation to address it.
Yes. Joint Declaration and basic law.
Hong Kong should never have been “given” to the PRC. It made no sense.
It didn’t have to be given to anyone. It’s bigger than Singapore and would be just fine as a city state.
Within a month it will be Tianamen Sq all over again. Adios to any freedom that used to exist in Hong Kong.
Chicoms will tolerate no dissent. And no country will oppose them due to their nukes and economic might.
At least Trump has cut off their ability to print money - when China economy slows they will be unable to keep ghost factories and banks alive and many people will lose jobs and savings. Then we will see how many the Chicoms are willing to kill to stay in power.
P.S. Now you know why HK money has been buying up Vancouver, London, California real estate. They knew this was inevitable...
The Hong Kong stock market doesn’t seem to be too worried, although property prices have fallen quite a bit recently, and many businesses are moving their banking to Singapore.
“Too late” will come sometime in the near future, but there doesn’t seem to be much panic going on just yet.
As for the Chicom military massing on the border, they have already sent in troops disguised as police to patrol the protests.
bears repeating
Just noticed this:
“Britain closely monitoring events in Hong Kong: Hunt”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-extradition-britain-idUSKCN1TV0GZ
For what it’s worth.
Oh sorry, that is an old article.
The UK? What a joke, they cannot even defend their flagged vessels. They rid themselves of Hong Kong years ago. It is over and now returned to China.
You should just surrender to anyone and everyone now.
Britain’s got basically nothing to send to HK even if they wanted to intervene. Most of their deployable naval assets are stuck in the Middle East now and short of SAS/SBS, they’re pretty boned for anything else to send. They can’t even pull off a Falklands and send out Harriers on merchant ships as makeshift carriers as they scrapped or sold them all off.
Short of special forces and only special forces, Britain is currently only able to “strongly remonstrate” China on their actions.
Yes, but you also believe that we can instantly bring back all industry to the US and begin manufacturing instantly with products rolling out of factories by the end of the week. That’s not reality. I know you are an expatriate living in Vietnam by your own admission on prior threads, so you may not know the desolation and restrictions on American industry.
Here’s a hint, Apple used to have a plant in Carrollton, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. They also had a plant in Garden Grove, California.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-06-15-fi-12519-story.html
Those plants are GONE. Not even the buildings remain. The suppliers are GONE. Everything needed to produce computers in those locations is GONE. All of it is vacant lots or giant housing developments now. It will take years to restart once someone wants to.
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t start bringing manufacturing back to the US (because we should), but there are obstacles in the way and a long, long lead time between saying “Let us make this good in America” and the first object rolling off the production line. Even if you ignore the regulatory obstacles, construction alone takes time. We should start now, but don’t expect to see actual production happening for 2-5 years even if we start today.
Why? The US needs to stand tall for itself and its native born citizens. Hong Kong is not our problem. China is our enemy and we should treat it as such but this is an internal Chinese matter. The UK walked away in 1997. I was in Hong Kong then and I sure had the send Hong Kong citizens were quite comfortable with the transition back to China. Anyway, not our concern, nothing for us to “surrender” on.
Yes I am currently living in Vietnam, but I have only been here for three years.
Trump has been encouraging US industry. Trump has also been advocating, to bring some of it back.
That is what I am saying. Lots of “American” industry was sold out to China.
It won’t come back on it’s own. It will need to be forced.
So I am saying, Trump. Use force.
Well, this is not an encouraging development.
But on the other hand, I am a bit surprised that China has not already ‘invaded’ or at least forced the local authorities to crack down.
There won’t be any need to do so. The moment the impending slaughter in Hong Kong by the Chinese government begins being broadcast on the internet is the moment foreign companies flee China. The first round fired may as well be directly into the head of their treasury staff because their foreign income will die. Nobody will risk being associated with the mass butchery that can be shown to anyone with an internet connection.
I currently live in HK and see and hear about the protests every day. Many of the independent HK news services keep telling people that there is no reason China to send troops to HK. And many people hold those reasons up as truth.
I suppose, in a western way of thinking, there isn’t any reason for China to send troops. But this is China and they already have had several senior government officials basically saying that troops are ready to hit the ground but just need HK’s approval. Besides, China doesn’t do anything without a reason.
One of the senior people in the current HK administration has basically said that the police can’t do their job properly. It sounds like a set up for asking China for troops. Have to wait and see.
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