In USA or Britain or any Western country, if the policeman did not put down your drivers lic # on your speeding ticket, plus spelled your name wrong, do you think it will hold up in court?
Snowden was in HKSAR of China, which has its own justice system similar to Britain, which is highly...
One more time: CN is not interested in becoming a superpower or world police.
The only CN troops on foreign soil now are UN peacekeeping force, the most of any single country sometimes if I may say, with their DongFeng trucks carrying food and medical supplies, to help people.
All CN's imports...
Nah, USA is so fond of being the World Police and been doing such a fine job for the last century it might as well keep the job.
CN cannot afford to take over, it cost too much. CN is still a poor country in a lot of areas, like military and industries. CN need to save its money and resources...
It has nothing to do with religion, there are Muslims all over China and most of them are doing well, The CN government actually has a high tolerance on religious and minority groups unless national security is threaten.
Those are terrorist, every time their acts are carried out by small groups...
What will YOU do if you go to work one day, find out that everything in the factory has been packaged and ready to be shipped away, then your boss tell you:" No worry, we are still in business, head office is wiring money, you will get the pay we own you soon......but now you need to let me go...
He had entered HK legally and departed legally. HK has its own law and justice system so why should it bent it for USA?
If USA was too slow in submitting the required documents and information, tough luck.
7.62 rounds do not have the range to used in a missile defense weapon, if the missile gets that close already (300-500 meters) hitting it will not make much difference.
A Vulcan gun (basically a Gatling machine gun with electric motor) firing a long range round (over 1000M) at 10,000 plus rpm...
Nah, the most CN Navy will do is surround the reef, the CN Navy will not fire first.
Like I say a battle is unlikely.
If a battle do break out, those chaps won't need to worry much about fighting to the last man.
The SR-71 Blackbird had a top speed of M3.5 and a F-15 with an experimental ammonia oxide engine was even faster, that was back in the late 60s. One relied on after burner and the other was essentially a rocket, of course.
So one may say that with some break through in G Suit design and...
No need to argue.
CCP miss their opportunity to retake Taiwan in the early 70s,
KMT miss their opportunity to gain independence in the early 80s.
Things will stay the way it is, at least for another decade.