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It did and I don’t think it could have gone to anyone else, leaving the choice as giving it to China, or keeping it. The argument that it shouldn’t have gone to the CCP was one I heard from someone who lived there.
Why not? The PRC is the successor state. It makes less sense to hand HK over to ROC because the ROC never had sovereignty over HK.
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To be satisfyingly pedantic, my King isn’t the same King. Mine is the King of Canada. It just happens to be the same person as the King of England and the King of Australia ;)
Some friends and I started playing Crusader Kings 2 recently. If anyone wants a thorough education in the weirdness of feudal monarchy, I highly recommend it, half the game is manipulating weird inheritance laws/scenarios to grow your holdings.
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Why not? The PRC is the successor state. It makes less sense to hand HK over to ROC because the ROC never had sovereignty over HK.
Successor state by force, not by people’s choice. The small part that ended up democratic hasn’t chosen to join the PRC.
Taiwan is democratic today, because of transitional justice, but at the time when the PRC succeeded the ROC in China, the nationalists led by Chiang were as dictatorial as you can get
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Yes and no. They're painting it as somehow legitimate and relevant. If you were seriously just enumerating possibilities then you could equally ask e.g. what if the Spanish decide to invade and reclaim their ancestral homeland?
Oh, my bad, I am supposed to mention every example that ever occurred on the face of the planet.. Instead of just showing the (relevant) example that should be watched to see if the sun is setting on the French Empire. I mean, if you were seriously just enumerating examples you would have included more than 1... right?
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people forget the fact that countries can break up in the future example: what happen if canada break up into 2 different state that want to their unique tld???? also what happen to current .ca ??? do you migrate all that domain and .ca ceased to exist???? internet is faily new in terms of human history (30+ years) while countries or kingdom has been ceased to exist and "rebrand" all the time its not so simple to jus…
This happened to Yugoslavia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.yu
I cant imagine nation have enough power that can keep these thing for years just for historical standpoint
Though empires are out of fashion , British colonies universally benefited from the British empire. The ones who are thriving today owe a huge debt of gratitude, and the languishing ones are that way because they decided not to continue the British tradition. The 20th century decline of the British empire is one of civilization's worst failures, on par with the decline of the Roman Empire.
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Ah yes, the killing was the fault of someone other than those killing people. Why didn't I think of that.
If you fail to see how divide and conquer strategies are employed by the imperial west both externally and internally, much of politics will become mystifying to you.
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Unfortunately in the case of Palestine Britain merely handed over the baton to an even more hideous imperialist monster - the U.S.A. - which has reverted to Napoleonic levels of barbarity. Imperialism is alive and well in 2025.
That's right, though I don't want to undersell the massive levels of suffering and trickery played by the British. Their stock in trade was to sow ethnic division and steal whatever they could. For example, the million+ that died in the partition of India was a result of their sowing of tensions between Hindus and Muslims. They also did a lot of looting in Africa. Going back in time, if you read about the Duchess of…
As an outsider I consider Canada and Australia - British Empire. Hard to think otherwise as they have the same king.
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Are you aware that is an impossible situation in the UK and that you should never listen to journalists or economists on this topic. They haven’t a clue what they are talking about. Look at the one month Treasury bill to see the actual situation.
I don't know how much I trust bond buyers and other "Market participants" to have a meaningful long-term view of a financial position with the many destabilising factors we are seeing (Social, Climate, etc..). They are accurate until they aren't. Maybe 20 years from now, you will be on a resort laughing at the treasury bill rates of 2025 and compare their accuracy to pets.com.
Rising rates at long maturities is a signal of uncertainty. The market is wanting shorter maturities. So stop issuing the long stuff the market doesn’t want and issue the shorter stuff it does want. Even to the point of leaving all of it on overnight until the dust settles