Yeah, the Hong Kong government all but officially voted itself out of existence.
When the chief of the an Executive power is elected by a small group and approved by China and more than half or your Legislative organ is not democratically elected by the people but by businesses and associations (a lot of them, in favor of China); that is bound to happen.
I feel sorry and so impotent for Hongkongers and their fight. This is Nazi Germany and the absorption of the Sudetenlands all over again.
.... so what's the overlap between the kind of people who prefer nationalism over globalism, and the kind of people who use "globalist" as an anti-semetic slur?
.... so what's the overlap between the kind of people who prefer nationalism over globalism, and the kind of people who use "globalist" as an anti-semetic slur?
Hm. You can't think of any reason why certain people might have a problem with nationalism? So much so that they would shed no tears if it ceased to exist altogether?
Hm. You can't think of any reason why certain people might have a problem with nationalism? So much so that they would shed no tears if it ceased to exist altogether?
I feel like there's a misunderstanding between you two. I think @Cliff_Edge thinks you are favouring nationalism to globalism, which, judging by your follow up, it would seem was not your intention.
Maybe you meant to say "and people think nationalism is preferable to globalism."?
Not going to feel bad for them. Brought it on themselves by siding with the NATO bastards. Besides that, worse has happened before and no one cried. Is there any art here calling for this kind of pity towards Yugoslavia? Iraq? Syria maybe? People cry for Ukraine and NATO sends support through weapons and training. But when Iraq was invaded, all they got was a verbal and insignificant recognition that the invasion was illegal, nothing more. People praised the US, and countries like France only said it was illegal, but no support was sent. Is it because they were not Aryan enough? Like the reporter said, "It's blond haired, blue eyed people"? If nothing was done for Iraq, nothing should be done for Ukraine, much less for Taiwan and Hong Kong, considering they are in this situation because the world allowed it, why was it fine when Hong Kong was a British colony but not now when it's back to the rightful owner? Why is nothing said of Taiwan being on Imperial Japan's side in WW2 and allowing them access to Mainland China, while supporting them with soldiers?
The Han and aboriginal populations were classified as second- and third-class citizens. Many prestigious government and business positions were closed to them, leaving few natives capable of taking on leadership and management roles decades later when Japan relinquished the island. After suppressing Han guerrillas in the first decade of their rule, Japanese authorities engaged in a series of bloody campaigns against the indigenous people residing in mountainous regions, culminating in the Musha Incident of 1930. Intellectuals and laborers who participated in left-wing movements within Taiwan were also arrested and massacred (e.g. Chiang Wei-shui and Masanosuke Watanabe). Around 1935, the Japanese began an island-wide assimilation project to bind the island more firmly to the Japanese Empire. Han culture was to be removed, and Chinese-language newspapers and curriculums were abolished. Taiwanese music and theater were outlawed. A national Shinto religion (國家神道) was promoted in parallel with the suppression of traditional Taiwanese beliefs through the reorganization of their temples and ancestral halls. Starting from 1940, families were also required to adopt Japanese surnames, although only 2% had done so by 1943. By 1938, 309,000 Japanese settlers were residing in Taiwan.
Burdened by Japan's upcoming war effort, the island was developed into a naval and air base while its agriculture, industry, and commerce suffered. [...]
Quite a lot of "open support" they had there for their Japanese occupiers.
