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Only one ear should be showing for LeBron, like Mao

 

 

2 hours ago, LBSeeBallLBGetBall said:

None of the woke OTW/TSW people have touched the topic in the NBA thread. Not surprising.


when you have freedom you can whine all the time about how you hate your free country and nobody cares

 

 

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Why China fears sending the tanks into Hong Kong. 

 

From here, Beijing’s choices in Hong Kong will not grow easier. The ultimate option, of course, is to mount a police or military intervention from the mainland in order to put down the protests. But at what cost? Hong Kong would lose forever its status as a global, cosmopolitan city, a goose that lays golden eggs for China. Since Deng Xiaoping introduced capitalism to China, Hong Kong has served as a critical business and investment portal for the country: a place where foreign companies feel it is safer for them to be based because of the independent judicial system and a banking structure that allows the free conversion of currencies and unlimited international transfers. As China has grown vastly richer it has become less dependent on Hong Kong for such purposes, but lots of investment into China still passes through the city.

 

A takeover of Hong Kong by force would also destroy Beijing’s proposition – tattered as it may already be – that Taiwan should accept unification with China on the basis of one country, two systems. Recent events in Hong Kong have already strongly lifted the election prospects for the governing party in Taiwan, whose leader Tsai Ing-wen favours continued defiance of Beijing.

 

 

Plus, President Trump would clobber them with sanctions

 

They know this, and Trump knows this, which is why the trade talks are “ongoing” and why they haven’t sent tanks in.

 

 

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On 10/15/2019 at 11:34 PM, Rob's House said:

You must see this

 

 

 

"Communism vs democracy...that's not complicated. Or we really need to evaluate our school systems and educational system because people are lost." :beer:

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