But I have a feeling your position is basically "Except for all the cases where they're threatening their neighbors, they're not threatening their neighbors at all."
The government that leased it couldn’t really have less to do with the government that took it over in recent times. Things got considerably worse for Hong Kong, and the citizens didn’t want to join China.
It’s certainly not a given that donating it to China was the right call.
There's also the whole South China sea thing, where they're making claims on international waters and the territorial waters of their neighbors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So...
But I have a feeling your position is basically "Except for all the cases where they're threatening their neighbors, they're not threatening their neighbors at all."
>I have a feeling your position is basically...
No, not at all. I don't follow China closely, and was genuinely asking.
Arunachal Pradesh.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna245797
Tibet and Xinjiang already conquered and we have forgotten about them.
Xinjiang conquered? If you go that far back you can blame every big power for having conquered some of their territory.
Pretty much anything that happens to abut the South China Sea.
I suppose you could also make the argument that they already did invade Tibet and Hong Kong, though that's splitting hairs.
Hong Kong was always Chinese, and was leased at gun point.
The government that leased it couldn’t really have less to do with the government that took it over in recent times. Things got considerably worse for Hong Kong, and the citizens didn’t want to join China.
It’s certainly not a given that donating it to China was the right call.
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And now the agreement that they'd be given a more liberalistic government is being torn up at gun point.
India, Bhutan. South China Sea. East China Sea/Japan.