China versus the entire liberal world (including Japan and India). Do you really think China has a chance of winning?
What are you talking about? Nobody is willing to go to war with China over this, and China has the nukes to keep MAD in place. Stop thinking that as long as a country has liberal media to say bad things about China, that country wants to fight China.
That's only because the U.S. and NATO chose not to annihilate China with nukes, but sought cooperation against a more belligerent USSR. Keep in mind that DF-5 did not become operational until mid. 1980's.
What's your point? This isn't 1951. Now we have DF-5, 31, 31A, 31B, 41, ZF soon too.
I'm afraid it is not that simple. These aren't just spoil kids. These are kids with their own sets of ideologies and seem willing to die for them. If we want to prevent bloodshed, I think giving HK genuine elections (no CCP vetting) is the only solution in the short-term.
Hahahahahaha NO. Let them loot trash their own city and turn themselves into hobos. The longer they do it, the more hate they garner form the local Hong Kong population and well as from the rest of China. Let's see how long they can keep ruining their own lives. China's economy is insulated from this. Never give rioters anything that they want; it encourages future bad behavior. It is like giving terrorists money to not be a terrorist for a day.
And China still hasn't deployed a tactic that I would put before a military intervention, which is to round up some million patriotic able-bodied Chinese citizens, get them all in red t-shirts to counter the black t-shirts, arm them with steel pipes and pour them across the border to absolutely beat these rioters to high hell, private citizen vs. private citizen. I'd buy a plane ticket to volunteer.
When the contract expires in 2047, why not re-negotiate then (assuming Mainland would have far greater leverages internationally by then)? However, if the PLA or PAP were to crack down on the protestors right now, it would be Beijing's violation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which is a binding international treaty.
Because governments don't negotiate with punk rioting kids. "Binding treaties" are until one side pulls out, as Trump shows us. And to be frank, the British have no illusions that they can force China to stay in if China wants out anyway.
Now people could blame HK protesters being violent and racist, but if PLA/PAP moves in, it would ALL be Beijing's fault.
Build your country based on yourself if you want it be strong. Countries built on the opinions of the international communities are weak and spineless. This is China's affair. If push comes to shove, China will do what it needs within its borders, and if anyone thinks it's Beijing's "fault" they can pound sand. If they want to make a problem of it, we can go to war. This is a China that nobody can bully.
