[MadIvan]

I was in Hong Kong last Christmas - I loved it, I thought it was a dynamic, wonderful place, dedicated to innovation and change. I was proud of the foresight of British administrators to let it become the bastion of the free market it once was. How pitiful that the Reds are pouring it all away.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[tet68]

I was in Hong Kong in "67" on R&R.
What a great city!
Home of the most, MOST beautiful women in the world!
The Star ferry, the Peak, man I sure wish I could go back.
Never made it to a floating resturant though, I heard
that was an experience never forgotten.
Went to a Memorial to British Dead in WW II. there .
God Bless.

[O6ret]

Since my first visit to the then Crown Colony in '69 courtesy of my all expenses paid 13-month holiday in SEA (Pip Wong where are you???) I've been back perhaps a dozen times. It just keeps getting better.

But as to the point of your post, it's not just Hong Kong in the slow-boiling pot. The entire Pacific rim (and indeed the West) should be wary of China's growing economic and military power.

[maui_hawaii]

The CCP does not like competition.

Rule #1 for the CCP: "we will ALWAYS rule China"

Rule #2: We will try to extend our power over all of Asia, and wherever we need to.

They have a set 'revolutionary' method of thinking and thats that. One could make a stellar argument against the CCP, but they will ignore it, and continue on like the rocks for brains they are.

They are trying to impose their feudal rule over whoever they can, and make sure that NO ONE challenges them or their positions.

[tallhappy]

What England did to Hong Kong is shameful -- especially after 6-4.

Hong Kong isn't slowly boiling, it's fried already. Done.

That Britain did not set it up to be equivalent to a Singapore (Hong Kong has twice the population) is Britain's shame and Hong Kong's loss.

[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.

[Triple]

How many classes of citizenship does Great Britain have?
I understand that many citizens were prohibited from moving from HK to other parts of GB prior to being turned over to the commies. Is that true?
If so, how did one qualify to move to England or elsewhere within GB at the time?

Thanks,

[Tailgunner Joe]

[PhilDragoo]

Who did not know in 1997 that Hong Kong was lost?

Who can speak of Taiwan's "reunification" and not shiver with dread?

The Borg is mere fiction; China is real.

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

To that end China aids the Taliban/al Qaeda, and is active in the Western Hemisphere, from its sigint installation on Cuba, to its Cristobal/Balboa grip on the Canal, to Hugo and the FARCers, not to mention Brazil.

Yet Daschle and DiFi are blind to it; Hitlery embraces it.

Jiang is invited to Crawford for barbecue the 26th of October. .

Throw him on the fire.

[piasa]

Eroding the apolitical civil service sounds like what Obama and Biden have done with their Czars and other shuffling to get around congress.