It always amazes me how people explain away ways in which people are denied self determination or indeed human rights. Thus, for example, in the dire situation in Sudan, it is almost as though the people themselves are being blamed for the devestation as opposed to local warlords and neighbouring countries - and as for thier human rights, well that doesn't matter because they never had them in the first place.
Regarding Hong Kong which China now denies was ever a colony but merely an occupied territory, the people are told not to expect anything because fate was always going to give them a bad deal - I hope the people saying that will be consistent and make the argument for the Russian invasion of Ukraine (it was inevitable) or maybe they would like to say that the endless civil wars and massacres in Ethopia were inveitable for historic reasons and therefore do not matter. This is stomach churning logic.
Some time last year on the Machon WhatsApp political thread I made an impassioned statement about the PRC and how dangerous it was to the independence of Taiwan and to the West in general. I cited its prevalence in Africa and desires to dominate in the Pacific and how it has totally reversed freedoms in HK that we not only enjoy but believe are part of our civil rights.
David Allard replied and I am paraphrasing, that the people of HK had no cause to complain because it was a colonial entity at core and was always going back to China.
I thought at the time ho naive a response that was and asked how would he feel if he had to live under the conditions that now prevail in HK.
He never responded. As you update us weekly on how under Starmer, the UK is sleep walking into a situation where one day they will wake up and find just how much power the Chinese have in the UK and how much they have penetrated the security of the UK, I am no longer surprised by his response.
Whereas if one asked Australians how much they trusted the PRC, an overwhelming majority would resoundingly say they were not to be trusted.
Obviously proximity and the fact that ASIO has reported on how often Australia has been under cyber attack and how often they have caught them attempting to penetrate our security systems as well as China’s “punishing” Australia through trade embargoes has made the general public much more au fait with h reality.
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It always amazes me how people explain away ways in which people are denied self determination or indeed human rights. Thus, for example, in the dire situation in Sudan, it is almost as though the people themselves are being blamed for the devestation as opposed to local warlords and neighbouring countries - and as for thier human rights, well that doesn't matter because they never had them in the first place.
Regarding Hong Kong which China now denies was ever a colony but merely an occupied territory, the people are told not to expect anything because fate was always going to give them a bad deal - I hope the people saying that will be consistent and make the argument for the Russian invasion of Ukraine (it was inevitable) or maybe they would like to say that the endless civil wars and massacres in Ethopia were inveitable for historic reasons and therefore do not matter. This is stomach churning logic.
Some time last year on the Machon WhatsApp political thread I made an impassioned statement about the PRC and how dangerous it was to the independence of Taiwan and to the West in general. I cited its prevalence in Africa and desires to dominate in the Pacific and how it has totally reversed freedoms in HK that we not only enjoy but believe are part of our civil rights.
David Allard replied and I am paraphrasing, that the people of HK had no cause to complain because it was a colonial entity at core and was always going back to China.
I thought at the time ho naive a response that was and asked how would he feel if he had to live under the conditions that now prevail in HK.
He never responded. As you update us weekly on how under Starmer, the UK is sleep walking into a situation where one day they will wake up and find just how much power the Chinese have in the UK and how much they have penetrated the security of the UK, I am no longer surprised by his response.
Whereas if one asked Australians how much they trusted the PRC, an overwhelming majority would resoundingly say they were not to be trusted.
Obviously proximity and the fact that ASIO has reported on how often Australia has been under cyber attack and how often they have caught them attempting to penetrate our security systems as well as China’s “punishing” Australia through trade embargoes has made the general public much more au fait with h reality.