China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong

Re:China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong by Shivetya on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:41PM (#23260776)

Well the risk here is that Hong Kong is merely the beginning and based on how the world reacts will determine their action towards Taiwan. They likely will wait till the next US election to take stronger action in either case. They pretty much tipped their hand with mock invasions of Taiwan, can you imagine the international uproar if the US did the same with North Korea?

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Re:China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong by rohan1024 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:08PM (#23261208)

[Removed: wild theory about pandemic being cause of world wars]

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Re:China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:13PM (#23261305)

The historical record strongly indicates that people didn't care that much about the 1918 pandemic after it was over. It's not like history was poorly recorded in the 20th century; if people were fighting wars or implementing policies because the public was still angry about the pandemic, that would have been reported in the daily news.

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Re:China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong by bitxbitxbitcoin on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:14PM (#23261326)

You seem to have your dates mixed up... The 1918 pandemic is largely accepted as being exacerbated by the end of WW1.

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Re:China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong by foxbarrington on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:15PM (#23261361)

There's a theory that it caused WW2: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/woodrow-wilsons...

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Re:China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong by stOneskull on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:15PM (#23261360)

WW1 ended in 1918. You could theorize that maybe the pandemic made peace.

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