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Chinese are thieves. They had been stealing our Intellectual Properties for years. China has encroached all over the Pacific and have built military base at the Spratly Islands that they don't own. Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and others own these islands.

China's trade war with US. China devalued their yuan currency so low, so that they manipulate trades with all other countries. Their biggest market is the US.

Therefore values of their exports to US and other countries are so low that will attract foreign buyer to buy more of their exports. On the other hand US exports get higher so that will minimize our sales to China and others. This will hurt our economy.

I am not sure how else to rectify this problem at the moment. Stocks are doing down so much right now.
My investments go down also.

We really haven't been able to trust the media since the '80s. I have a partial list that Nixon gave Walter Cronkite is on t along with a few other deceased ones. One of my buds thinks we've found the underbelly of the nwo these are all p*******es. The media's bald-faced lying started this year, it kind of makes sense in a perverse way. After all we are in a civil war with no shots fired, the left refuses to accept Trump. That is what is called a civil war. So we may as well get rid of the s*******s Congress.

C*******ts generally use force and oppression to control their fellow citizens and keep power. The problem is, as the Soviets found out, over the long term you simply cannot match your Capitalist competitors. Stalin used force and murder to get what he could out of his s***es. His successors by not being as blood thirsty gradually got less and less. Whenever leaders like Khrushchev and Gorbachev tried to reform C*******m their efforts only made it even less efficient because they could not ever go far enough in allowing the incentives for the people to want to produce more.

China was the only C*******t nation to figure out a way to allow capitalistic reforms in and still maintain political control. Somehow the Chinese reformers were not blocked by the bureaucratic power centers that always frustrated Soviet reformers. However, the Chinese model requires high economic growth. There has to be at least the perception of the Chinese people improving economically. If they have a prolonged period of stagnation, their only fallback is harsh repression.

They can get away with Repression with isolated regions that have minorities like the Uyghurs who can be isolated. They are trying to wipe out the cultural identity of the Uyghurs and make them thoroughly Chinese. They have many in detention camps.

My point is that China would prefer using prosperity to govern rather that naked force. China is described as very strong, but brittle. There are divisions within the C*******t Party. If they use force because they have a period of low growth, then cracks in their facade of control will form. They also have a potential rival political class that North Korea does not have to worry about. They have a rich entrepreneurial group who might become active.

When the Soviet Union collapsed there was a small group of Oligarchs who eventually Putin had to crush. The Chinese C*******t Party has to be aware that it has that same problem, only much bigger.

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Without Hongkong, the economic policy of China could not compete with president Trump. China has 1.4 billion people to take care of.

The British took over Hongkong in 1898 with a lease for 99 years under Queen Victoria. British had made Hongkong prosperous with democratic controlled under capitalism.

GDP of US in 2018 was $20.5 trillion versus China was $14.2 trillion.

President Trump impost a 10% tariff to China imports worth about $300 billion.
Chinese retaliated to impost 25% tariffs to US imports about $16 billion.

US depends so much on cheap quality Chinese products, made by Chinese cheap labor. I think US must discipline ourselves buy our own which is more durable and better quality though a little bit more expensive due to our higher standards and high labor cost.

In 1997, the British PM Margaret Thatcher, signed and ended the 99-year lease. Hongkong was ceded back to China, with the condition that Hongkong remains democratically controlled governance under capitalism for 50 years.

The return of Hongkong to China made China prosperous and gradually got world dominance in commerce in the Far East. It used to be Japan was the main country that controlled economic dominance in the Far East.

The people in Hongkong have been used to democratic control via the Parliamentary system of England.
That has slowly changed, and the mainland China is beginning to take away that freedom, thus people of Hongkong resist. They want more freedom away from the mainland.

Hongkong has a 426 miles of territory and the most densely populated and economically independent in all parts of the world. Hongkong is now revolting against the mainland for power control. The people of Hongkong grew up in freedom under the British rule.
I hope the people of Hongkong continue to live freely under capitalism to pursue its destiny.

https://www.thoughtco.com/china-lease-hong-kong-to-britain-195153