Hong-Kong Protests

KYli

Brigadier
really? he/she is not, see this

Gatekeeper was banned a few months ago.
 

taxiya

Brigadier
Registered Member
Profit means nothing in front of physical power. The US can catch him and lock him up in jail. I hope people stop thinking economy or money is a deciding factor in the hegemony war. We have been seeing cases of biting feeding hand over and over including woke companies bashing their own customers, Australia antagonizing China and now all the Western sanctions on Russia. That's because profit isn't the most important thing. Just because someone is economically dependent on you, doesn't mean they aren't going to or they can't defy you. You can't always get what you want with only economic incentives and economic measures.
You are right in saying that "profit means nothing in front of physical power and one can't get what one want with only economic incentives", but that is NOT what China is going to do in this case, nor the reason @KYli called it suicidal .

The reason that HSBC can not defy China is because of China's raw force behind the freeze. The account freeze is by court order of HK. If HSBC defy the order, Hongkong (China) can confiscate HSBC' asset in HK for defying court order and Chinese law. It can escalate all the way up to imprison every manager of HSBC in Hongkong and mainland.

It is not only the US who can do things with raw force in the world, so can China and Russia is doing it right now.
 
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