re: #80 Anymouse 🌹

I pretty much figured that would happen. When the United Kingdom agreed to the handover and China agreed not to meddle for at least fifty years, the United Kingdom pretty much had no leverage left. What’s the UK going to do, go to war with China over treaty violations?

I presume the same sort of thing will happen in Macao, and Portugal won’t be able to do anything either.

Macao has been less problematic than HK, as far as Beijing is concerned. The party’s biggest concern there is clamping down on high-rollers from the mainland using Macao to smuggle their cash out of China proper. Macao has not had the same history of political activism as HK has, and it also has a smaller resident population.

One important thing to know about China is its unreliability when it comes to written contracts, agreements or treaties. China will seemingly agree to stipulations demanded by outsiders, then after some time ignore them. They’re a lot like Trump in that regard. China is only about China, and the Party doesn’t give a crap about anyone else.