Owner of 'US 8964' licence plate faced police scrutiny and a year of harassment

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SilverElfin · 14d ago

Sad that China imposes such restrictions on Hong Kong like blocking a peaceful protest event. They have violated the treaty on Hong Kong’s handover so many times. I wonder why the West doesn’t just take it back due to the treaty being ignored.

Terr_ · 14d ago

> I wonder why the West doesn’t just take it back

Speaking as an ex-HK resident, it's very simple: For the last 30+ years, it has not been in the UK's national interest to start a war with the PRC for HK, and I can't really blame them.

Independence? Forget troops, China need only close the valves on the pipes they use to sell HK water. Dress it up as false-flag sabotage.

I actually did the math once, and shipping in HK's water usage is the volume of the biggest oil-tankers in existence (which would somehow need to be converted to store/pump clean water) and making such an elephantine delivery every single day through a likely Chinese blockade.

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Owner of 'US 8964' licence plate faced police scrutiny and a year of harassment

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