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Re:Hong Kong’s security law is going to devastate its economy by Matticus_Rex on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @03:49PM (#23328952)
It's a very bad tool for that particular job, as we discovered in Iraq -- it hurts the most vulnerable members of the society, and does very little to the elites making the policies we don't like.
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Re:Hong Kong’s security law is going to devastate its economy by hker on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @04:39PM (#23329652)
In this case, sanctioning Hong Kong is part of sanctioning China, because it hinders technology transfer (eg to Huawei) and finance transfer (Hong Kong was previously not affected by trade tariffs on China, and has a huge stock market).

It remains to be seen if sanctioning China (partially) could bring about political change, as CCP is endorsed within China mostly for economic growth in the past three decades.

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Re:Hong Kong’s security law is going to devastate its economy by firecall on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @06:26PM (#23330877)
True.

But it's not the point; The intention is reduce the capabilities of the country as a global influence and generate internal state turmoil.

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Re:Hong Kong’s security law is going to devastate its economy by dnautics on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:43PM (#23332833)
After decades of sanctioning Libya the united states finally got what it wanted by decapitating the state with violence; one wonders (global political dynamics aside) if for the unfortunate citizens of Libya, it would have just have been better to have gotten it over with earlier.
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Re:Hong Kong’s security law is going to devastate its economy by sudosysgen on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:05AM (#23333953)
This will not really hurt the capabilities of China in the long term.
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