Margaret Thatcher exiting the Great Hall of the People after Deng Xiaoping forced her to surrender all of Hong Kong

Chinky stairs were not made for aryan feet.

>>17810598
nothing aryan about the british. the chinese were considered honorary aryans by hitler.

>>17810551 (OP)

she should have given them a referendum to join taiwan or independence

>>17810615
Deng Xiaoping, famous for caring about public opinion and reluctance to deploy the army

>>17810615
Joining Taiwan wouldn't make sense because the Republic of China already claims sovereignty over Hong Kong. But the ROC has no presence outside of Taiwan anyway, so they wouldn't be able to effectively govern Hong Kong, nor would the CCP allow them to do that.

>>17810655
>簡體

>>17810660
I don't know what that means.

>>17810669
Simplified characters.
The RoC still uses traditional characters. Simplified characters are used in the PRC.

>>17810632
Why would China start world war 3 over Hong Kong?

>>17810655
How does it make sense to trade liberty for marginal economic benefits? Hong Kong is a trading port, everything can be brought in by sea.

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>>17810674
Interesting. So I suppose the commies made this made to illustrate the territorial claims of the ROC, although it is kind of old since the ROC relinquished their claims over Mongolia a while ago.

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>>17810678
My point is that the RoC doesn't want to take over Hong Kong, they want to take over the entirety of China. That's the entire reason why the RoC never declared independence from China. On top of that, trying to over Hong Kong would have given the CCP a perfect excuse to re-invade Taiwan and destroy the RoC completely. Too risky.

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>>17810655
>no presence outside of Taiwan
>what is Fujian Province, ROC
this is a nice map, I wish it was higher res

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>>17810687
famous humiliation rituals of history?

>>17810551 (OP)
>have you said thank you?

>>17810691
>what is Fujian Province, ROC
Tell me more.

>>17810680
I doubt it. I'd guess it's made by some retard on deviantart.
It says 一個聯盟下的五個種族, which feels like a very poor google translate. It says "One union under five races." But not only is it grammatically unnatural but they wouldn't use 聯盟 to mean union here or 種族 to mean races. 聯盟 is more like league than union, 種族 is more like genus than race. 民族 would be used to refer to people.

>>17810607
The Vietnamese using the Latin alphabet massively increased literacy, before they used the Chinese script which only the elite had time to learn

>>17810678
NATO refused to aid Portugal when India illegally invaded Goa in 1961. Britain likewise expected nobody to aid it for Hong Kong. Also British generals were adamant they would not win and told Thatcher there was no military option on the table.

>>17810655
I used to say VHG to images like this, but as I grew older, I realized they'd probably just be another corrupt oligarchy today with more toxic nationalism and a south korea tier corporate dystopia

>>17810678
>Why would China start world war 3 over Hong Kong?
*Why would the UK start a war over Hong Kong?
That's the real kicker here, China cared more about taking back the island than Britain cared about keeping it. Deng knew he could mobilize all of China for a war to reclaim HK, Thatcher could not mobilize millions of Britons to fight a war with a nuclear power over a non-British city (HK being like 90%+ Cantonese and actual British people there being a miniscule population)

>>17810692
It takes mass repliers that long to read the OP subject and become aware of the thread topic?

>>17810699
I thought traditional characters only gotten stronger when Chiang Kai Shek introduced the Cultural Renaissance against Mao? When the Nationalists had control, they were the ones planning, building simplified characters to be implemented, when Mao took over, he accelerated the progress and introduced the simplified characters. If the KMT retained control, there was a chance simplified characters could be implemented.

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>>17810786
I'm not familiar with the situation in Goa, but Hong Kong was leased to the British government by China. In other words, if Britain went to war over Hong Kong, it would have been a violation of their contract and a blatant aggression against China.
Now, that's never stopped European powers from ganging up on China before, but what I'm saying is that it would have been a bad look to sponsor an illegal invasion of a sovereign country's territory.

>>17810789
Looking at the state of the ROC today I'd say it's surely for the better.

>>17810551 (OP)
Damn, an actual history thread? Have a bump.

>>17810615
Not that simple, CCP would have just invaded in that case.

HK was only kept under Bong rule at all because Mao said he wouldn't invade if the Bongs recognised the PRC instead of ROC (which they did)

>>17811706
Who is being humiliated here?
Do maga cultists think that trump will actually annex Greenland

>>17811942
Dude mark rutte literally called Trump "daddy". On camera. You can't get more humiliating than this.