E-Balla wrote:But like I said this is what all countries do. I posted what the US does already. I'm not seeing China as some special evil for doing what authoritarian regimes would all do when faced with a situation like this. This all sounds like shoddy justification to invade China and I pray to god that's not what it is. At the end of that day I'm about action, what do you want done about the situation because I'll totally admit both sides are bad and the only proper solution to me would be if Hong Kong was introduced back into China proper. It might suck, but it seems more "right" than the alternative.
Are you talking specifically about Western support for HK, or about the HK protestors themselves?
I'm certain that to the HK protestors, their fight for 'democracy' (as I have already explained in a previous post, it is not democracy as most Westerners conceive of it, but a restructuring of the current electoral system to be more fair and less Beijing biased) might implicitly be 'defending western imperialism', but to them that is likely merely a technical point when faced with being subsumed completely by an authoritarian regime that has no qualms about genociding people because they didn't have the good grace to be born Han Chinese.
To the protestors, it's about making sure Hong Kong isn't fully subsumed before 2047 as per the terms China agreed to (that they've been busy violating, and due to the structure of the government, is basically unstoppable).
But if you're suggesting that the protestors demands are illegitimate because they implicitly defend western imperialism, that seems like a problematic and dismissive stance to me.
Also, what is the 'alternative' you refer to?
