like if you follow HK it seems like many of the youth really dont want to be apart of china

@Empire Panda Iranians drive cars from the 70s and use Huawei smart phones from 2019. Das their relationship.

And they shouldn't want to be!

Beautiful

China buys oil from Iran

in large quatities

So do the Japs

iirc

China is also proping up N korea

their biggest issue is keeping up food supply, yeah

N Korea is a buffer between Beijing and South Korea which is full of Mutt soldiers

What I don't get is why does PRC need to so desperately keep hold of HK?

It's a Chinese territory

historically

taken away by Brits

Like.. just let the island go. They just provide you problems!

in a colonizing attempt

which ruined the Chinese Empire

but comrade colonization is okay when communist do it!

When they gave it up, it was a shithole.
Now it’s an economic powerhouse. They want that.
And yes, as doom implies, there’s a bit of pride there too.

it's a rather important symbol of standing up from their knees

Yea, but the same is true for HK.

it also has to do with HK being the most dangereous to the stability of mainland china

Remember, after WWI China was divided into special interest zones by the winners. DESPITE the fact China didn;t even participate...

its hard to sell people on ideas if you dont speak your langauge

They were fucking dominated to the core by European imperialism

well china did get fucked and raped a bit at that time

A decade ago, maybe. The internet is a bigger threat than hongkong, culture wise.

Are China's OpFor aware? Undoubtedly. Are they acting on it? That's the question.

but again china mainland govt says you need us to bring order, control and prosperity, HK spits in the face of all of that

And b4 the industrial revolution, China was thw world's most powerful Empire

they were absolutely deleted by Euros

they don't remember that very fondly

china walled themselves off in their cities

its like western and eastern germany theres a reason you couldnt escape from the eastern side

fearing the degeneracy outside their empire

And the Chinese, as the Arabs, have a fucking long memory.

Except you can totally leave China

?

can they all?