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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,290 posts) Fri May 22, 2020, 11:59 AM May 2020

China's proposed national security law could end Hong Kong as we know it

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China's proposed national security law could end Hong Kong as we know it (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 OP

Dunno about you... malthaussen May 2020 #1

Husband and I went there 2 weeks after the reunification in 1997. MoonRiver May 2020 #2

I know a whole lot of millennials who just love everything China...but I think their government is BComplex May 2020 #3

malthaussen

(17,175 posts)

1. Dunno about you...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri May 22, 2020, 12:28 PM

May 2020

... but I've been expecting something like this since 1997.

-- Mal

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)

2. Husband and I went there 2 weeks after the reunification in 1997.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri May 22, 2020, 12:37 PM

May 2020

Glad we got to see it then.

BComplex

(8,017 posts)

3. I know a whole lot of millennials who just love everything China...but I think their government is

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri May 22, 2020, 12:51 PM

May 2020

scary. They are very deliberate and long-view strategic thinkers, and they are authoritarian to the extreme. I wouldn't want to live under their rule.

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