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Originally posted by jade_dragon
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.
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Hong Kong was actually leased to the UK for a period of 99 years which has ended on July 1st 1997 when the UK has given Hong Kong back to China.
To put a parallel here, there is a group in Quebec that wish for that province to become an independent state but this has not happened. The result is that Quebec remains a Canadian province. Yes, there are people in Hong Kong that wish for it to become an independent state, but that has not happened. So HK still is a Chinese province.
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Originally posted by jade_dragon
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.
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Rightly or wrongly, the USA believed that Iraq was posing a threat to the international community. That's the case they made when they sent Colin Powell to the UN to explain why they wanted to do a pre-emptive strike.
India has already declared having the nuclear bomb a few years ago. Yet China has not acted on it. If they felt it was such a threat, they would have acted on that already. Keeping that in mind, I would say that the argument of China attacking India over feeling threatened is weak. For the exception of minor border disputes over some area in the plateau of Tibet, both countries are good neighbors.
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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.
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I have been lucky enough to have travelled to China and meet some of their people. I don't know where you get the idea that they are a progressive country. They are one of the most conservative nations that I know. Many subjects are still taboo and the majority of the products manufactured in China have not been invented there. This hardly shows a progressive spirit.
Tibet was invaded in the 50's by Mao's red army. But to show one event that was lead by a lunatic and happened 50 years ago does not reflect the thousands of years of history this country has. That's like saying that it's in Germany's culture to invade France. Besides, the point of invading Tibet was not to populate the area. It's a mountaineous region with little natural resources. To this day, there hasn't been an exodus of people leaving eastern China to settle in Tibet. The point really was politics. In China, "face" is often everything. It's to save face and try to put the Dalai Lama to silence that Tibet was invaded.