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Originally posted by Mike Okitch
Find some newspaper from 97 and you will learn that Hong Kong has been returned to China.
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Interesting because we were reading HK was still attempting to become an independant state and was not under the control of mainland China in 99, I will look further into it.
As far as the international community preventing invasion it is not avoided by the international community saying it is ok or not, nor particuraly by them standing against it case in point, Iraq. China is a progressive country that looks into the future because it is in the culture to focus but to avoid tunnel vision. China is also a conquering and assimilating country, it is in their history and culture to do so. I do not believe China would wait untill its people are stacked on each other more to start aquiring territories outside of its borders, case in point Tibet in the early 2000's with the President barking threats at China's plans to assimilate. Some would argue that assimilation for resources or to expand in any mannor including more living space would be political.