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In Reply to: RE: An ordinary commercial fuse is almost always UL approved... posted by Lew on August 21, 2020 at 09:05:09
The UK should never have given Hong Kong back to China, since they are like Taiwan with a separate identity and western values. It's very disturbing to see the Chinese crackdown on Hongkongers who simply wish to be treated like other nations without authoritarian rulership.
Edits: 08/21/20Follow Ups:
The UK should never have given Hong Kong back to China . . .
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire following the latter's victory in the First Opium War (1842). IOW, Britain won the right to sell opium to the Chinese by force of arms though the mantra was "free trade". Of course, such a thing would never happen today, would it?
The colony expanded to include the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after Britain's victory in the Second Opium War. Hong Kong was evolving from a colonial outpost into a major entrepôt and was further extended when it obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The colony was restored to China in 1997 when the lease expired (150 years after the First Opium War).
As Lew suggests, Britain had no choice in the matter either politically or legally and even less militarily.
Taiwan as you know, is very sophisticated, with western values
As Humpty-Dumpty might have put it, "There's a nice knock-down oxymoron for you!"
There are rumours in the UK press that some of those "sophisticated western values" are being hotly debated in the US amid a frenzy unusual even for a POTUS election.
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(Dates checked and some syntax plagiarised from Wiki but the history is mainstream.)
I would say the term "western values" is ironic rather than oxymoronic, but I take your point. Western values includes good and evil practices and beliefs.
good post ... China wants all it's territories back under it's thumb
any 'western values' will be eroded or ejected
except behind closed doors at the very top of course
regards,
but I don't think the Brits had much of a choice. One of my friends likes to point out, not necessarily in defense of the Chinese but just for the irony, that in 99 years of British control, there was never a free election in Hong Kong. I haven't checked his facts.
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