Re:China to Allow State-Security Agents to Police Hong Kong
by mytailorisrich on Sunday May 24, 2020 @04:48AM
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"Mao was long dead when the relevant treaties were negotiated"
We're discussing the option communist China had to take HK back by force. The point is thus why that did not occur in 1949 or the 50s.
Mao was long dead when the relevant treaties were negotiated.
> CIA probably did try things at some point but clearly to no effect because there is no 'dissident movement' of any scale
In the late 90s, the West best over backwards to accommodate China. It was a new market and stable Asian power.
Modern China has dissident and separatist movements. The NPC has prioritised legislation precisely to head off the threat. Censors scrub the Hong Kong and Tianamen Square protests for similar reasons.
> why did Mao stop short of retaking Macao and HK, and of taking Taiwan in 1949?
He didn’t have the firepower. Water crossings are taxing. It would have taken a full military commitment, and still left the endpoint uncertain. Consolidating power on the mainland was the more prudent move.