LeveragedBuyout
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The article is a sort of late comer. Hence, irrelevant now. As for interfering in another state's internal affairs, that's an offence under international law. Besides, Japan has its own soft spots, thus, a consensus not to interfere in each other's political-social issues is possibly the best route to take for both.
Soft spots are easy to scratch and the region is full with soft spots. No body is spared.
Just as New Yorkers could not care less about Texan's complaints, right? But sovereignty and national territorial integrity is another issue, if it is what you try to imply.
I guess those articles should just test and challenge China's sovereignty over Hong Kong to see China's resolve and the Chinese people's reaction.
This attempt to paint HK as somehow separate from the rest of China is no less lame than Texan or Californian independence movements.
Other than this, certainly, HK's economic woes is a concern for their on residents, local government and Beijing. It is not by accident that Beijing subsidizes HK for eternity. Because Beijing has sole autonomy and thus responsibility.
This was a big blunder on part of the string holders. Some heads should roll over the State Department and a bunch of CIA extensions here and there.
I see one big problem with the US handling its foreign diplomacy. This has been the case with rightist-sentimentalist Bush and centrist-sentimentalist Obama: The US has recently been too in a rush, hasty to reveal its true color all at once -- all the cards it has, so to speak. There is no strategic silence, or a monetary step-back to see the bigger picture, to calculate costs and benefits, to let the early hot-headedness pass... Led by Biden, they simply jump into every occasion and speak their mind, which allows the opponent to develop counter-strategies early on.
I guess US has a serious leadership problem and I guess your Constitution allows you to overthrow a government by force when it turns tyrannical. I consider this plundering of foreign legitimacy and influence an extension of tyranny. Deal with it, US people. Let's see you will be greeted with open arms or riot police.
Didn't you live and work in the US at some point? I thought you knew better. The reason why I am so amused at the conspiracy theories about American manipulation is because there is no such thing as long-term thinking in US foreign policy, and there is no such thing as strategic thinking in US foreign policy. US foreign policy is values-based and reactionary, so all of the Russian and Chinese talk of deep manipulation is simple projection. I guess you don't understand us as well as I thought.
By the way, it is not the Constitution that calls for revolution in the face of tyranny, but the superior Declaration of Independence that provides legitimacy for such actions. The way we're going, I no longer see such an outcome outside the realm of possibility.