Austin Bay June 24, 2020Communist China has decided it must crush Hong Kong because it knows the city presents an information-streaming ethnic, geographic, political and ideological alternative to the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarian police state.
The CCP police state promises China’s citizens prosperity’s material goodies—cellphones, electric cars—in exchange for silently accepting communist dictates no matter how harsh and malign. Hong Kong, however, is not a promise. It is an existing democratic example of 21st-century Chinese prosperity.
Why add “information streaming”?........Information about Hong Kong’s political, economic, social and cultural vitality manages to spread throughout mainland China...........Recent economic news suggests China is teetering. A China-EU investment and trade deal has snagged. Bloomberg reported defaults “in all sectors” of China’s offshore bond market have exceeded $4 billion, double that during the same period of 2019..........Big Picture: The goodie-producing economic engine that braces the CCP’s domestic political strategy needs international markets. China’s domestic economy can’t sustain it..........
Border war with India: In the long run, it’s worse than Hong Kong. Asia’s two nuclear-armed giants contest Himalayan routes that make it easier for China to invade India. The unresolved 1962 Sino-Indian War revives............The CCP’s espionage and bribery wars suffer reverses...............Military pushback in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.............New Delhi tells Beijing, “your maritime economic supply lines can be cut..............To Read More....
My Take - I think this article confirms my positions in my piece, China Reset
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