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Re:An update on YC China by SkyMarshal on Thursday November 21, 2019 @08:35PM (#21601688)
The US can't take military action in Hong Kong, because its handover to China was completely legal. You can thank the British for their short-sightnedness on this one, but nothing the rest of the world can do, at least overtly. I see this fact repeatedly forgotten or overlooked in the brewhaha over HK.
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Re:An update on YC China by stevens32 on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:54AM (#21603142)
Are we just going to ignore why Hong Kong was under British rule in the first place?
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Re:An update on YC China by SkyMarshal on Sunday December 01, 2019 @10:09PM (#21679526)
That's not necessary legally, since the legal handover is already sufficient to justify non-intervention.

But of course the way Hong Kong was originally acquired at the point of a gun bolsters the moral/ethical case for both the legal handover and non-intervention.

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