Trollslayer
Outstanding Member
The CCP is determined to rule the world.
Meaning Taiwan?China won't stop with Hong Kong.
China has no other significant disputes other than with Taiwan though.That would be another step.
It would never end.
FTFYandthinks
Only way world has got a chance of dealing with China is to start pulling back from them and divert trade and investment away from them.
Will never happen as too many of worlds rich & powerful use China to get even richer.
Don't think it will go "Cold War" route, but who knows.
One of the things that really annoyed me throughout the HK rioting was the constant accusations from rioters of HK police ‘brutality’.
This is the video which I keep remembering.Exactly. Now, I am not going to say the police were 100% squeaky but when faced with mobs, when your family and kids are being abused, when you or your colleagues are being threatened for many months - some will lose control. But, that is nothing compared to what the rioters got away with.
I kept saying to friends and family over in HK, the police officers are citizens too.
Maybe not looting, but still repeatedly vandalising/terrorising any businesses who ‘they’ felt had dared criticise them or weren’t anti China enough. Not looting, but the same net result for the trashed businesses...I will say one positive thing about the HK riots: they never looted.
They destroyed property, threatened innocent people, barricaded themselves inside a University but never looted.
Only way world has got a chance of dealing with China is to start pulling back from them and divert trade and investment away from them.
Will never happen as too many of worlds rich & powerful use China to get even richer.
Don't think it will go "Cold War" route, but who knows.
China has a big problem that is emerging now - other countries like Vietnam, Cambodia etc are where China was 30-40 years ago and the people in China have a much higher standard of living now.
The thing is, global trade is so linked now, any significant changes to dealings with China by the US will just mean the US economy will suffer. Imagine Apple having to sell Iphones for $300 more because they can't get the cheap parts and labour. They will suffer against Samsung and Huawei for instance.
Trump is widely known as not having a grasp of this and thinks insourcing everything to the US is the thing to do.