I was surprised in 1997, when the UK turned Hong Kong back over to Chinese authority. Looking at the map, HK can be driven to by Chinese. I’m not familiar with the politics, but that the Chinese want to exert more authority doesn’t surprise me. They have long had their eye on Taiwan, but they are a bit further away and there is not a bridge, yet. Taiwan has a large manufacturing base. I see “Made in Taiwan” on many products for sale here.
China just built the worlds largest sea crossing bridge, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge.
It's absolutely insane.
Now if Beijing ever feels the need to send in its troops, trucks are easier than boats, if there was a large scale uprising in Hong Kong, not that I predict there would be.
The problem with Taiwan is that Beijing is slowly but surely isolating it from the world, it is conceivable at the height of its economic strength vs. the world, it is conceivable, it could say to everyone, stop trading with Taiwan or else and destroy the Taiwanese economy in order to force it to submit.
That's how I potentially see the situation playing out far into the future, 41% of their trade is with the mainland and Hong Kong so, the Chinese are off to a pretty big start, leverage wise.
I was surprised in 1997, when the UK turned Hong Kong back over to Chinese authority. Looking at the map, HK can be driven to by Chinese. I’m not familiar with the politics, but that the Chinese want to exert more authority doesn’t surprise me. They have long had their eye on Taiwan, but they are a bit further away and there is not a bridge, yet. Taiwan has a large manufacturing base. I see “Made in Taiwan” on many products for sale here.
China just built the worlds largest sea crossing bridge, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge.
It's absolutely insane.
Now if Beijing ever feels the need to send in its troops, trucks are easier than boats, if there was a large scale uprising in Hong Kong, not that I predict there would be.
The problem with Taiwan is that Beijing is slowly but surely isolating it from the world, it is conceivable at the height of its economic strength vs. the world, it is conceivable, it could say to everyone, stop trading with Taiwan or else and destroy the Taiwanese economy in order to force it to submit.
That's how I potentially see the situation playing out far into the future, 41% of their trade is with the mainland and Hong Kong so, the Chinese are off to a pretty big start, leverage wise.
Our American Communists should be sent to live under Communism for two years to get an education on what it is really like.
All the "boat people" of any country are the ones LEAVING Communist run countries, not going to them.
I was surprised in 1997, when the UK turned Hong Kong back over to Chinese authority. Looking at the map, HK can be driven to by Chinese. I’m not familiar with the politics, but that the Chinese want to exert more authority doesn’t surprise me. They have long had their eye on Taiwan, but they are a bit further away and there is not a bridge, yet. Taiwan has a large manufacturing base. I see “Made in Taiwan” on many products for sale here.
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