China Might Send Military to Hong Kong

Chris, what is the significance of the University of Queensland's problems with student clashes turning violent concerning the Hong Kong protests? If freedom of expression is under threat in Australia's institutions for higher learning, does that mean it is being threatened everywhere?

Chris, suppose you become the POTUS tomorrow, what would be your 12-step program to combat the CCP plague?

Do you know how long it will take to get all the tanks & missiles to Taiwan? Find it odd they get 108 tanks - Does Buddha Approves of Tanks?

QUESTION: As a History Teacher, I'd love to discover films and documentary videos about the Cultural Revolutions and the Great Leap Forward. Can you recommend any?

As to the Chi-Coms in Taiwan, we do have a defense agreement with Taipei. The CCP would spark WW III with a lunge across Formosa Strait. Of course, they might gamble on striking a psychological blow to US complacency by sinking a couple of US Aircraft Carriers and exhorting their Iranian, North Korean, and Russian catspaws to make trouble for us simultanbeously. Still, it would be an uncharacteristically aggressive move. But Xi seems capable of such a miscalculation. Were he to make such, I can only hope that if attacked, we will fight on to Victory, which could mean a genuinely Free China. In any event, I'd rather not roll those dice, if I could avoid it. Also, any credulous Fellow Traveler who actually believed that the CCP meant it when they said, "One China: Two Systems", any Totalitarian crackdown in Hong Kong will give this the lie. The United States should formally re-recognize the Republic of China in Taiwan, with its capital at Taipei. We should also build an East Asian version of NATO, involving the Indians, the Thais, the Vietnamese, the Australians, the New Zealanders, the Philippines, the Taiwanese, the South Koreans, and (perhaps less formally) the Japanese. If Indonesia and Malaysia could be induced to join us, then all the better.

Regarding the Confucius Institute's Infiltration of the West: CHINA: Better off without it June 21, 2019 at 5:00 am | We are all witnesses to an ongoing crime. The people of Hong Kong are having their freedoms stolen, their human rights stripped away. The Big Brother surveillance state, built by American tech companies, has already identified its future victims. With the new policy of extradition to mainland China, anyone who exercises their freedom of conscience can be sent to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) experienced torturers, brainwashers, and organ harvesters. Hong Kong is unique. Along with the legitimate Republic of China in independent Taiwan, Hong Kong never had its ancient mix of Taoist, Confucian, and Buddhist culture targeted for destruction by the bloodiest mass-murderer in human history, Mao Zedong. Unlike Taiwan, thanks to the British legacy, Hong Kong evolved a fusion of the best in both West and East. While we might not be able to intervene to prevent a greater Tiananmen Square Massacre in Hong Kong, Americans can wake up to the existential threat to the future of a free humanity posed by the CCP. Their greatest victim has thus far been the people of China, but if unchecked this will change. We can divest ourselves from investment in Red China and find alternatives to doing business with them. No profit margin is worth the corrupting effects of partnering with the CCP. We should divest because its victims are human beings, worthy of dignity and basic rights just as we ourselves are. When one person has these basic qualities stripped away by raw force, all of us are diminished. RALPH K. GINORIO Coeur d’Alene https://www.cdapress.com/letters_to_the_editor/20190621/china_better_off_without_it

If it were that easy and straightforward a task, wouldn’t China have invaded Taiwan long ago? China’s words are bellicose, however their actions suggest crossing the Taiwan Strait a perilous proposition for the invader.

SURPRISE??? No, even in the USA and in any other civilized nation. You can't allow Anarchist to take over. In the USA, we shot them at Kent State, and other places in the 1960s. They are still outlaws, even in China. Hong Kong will get run over just like Tinnamen Square. They let a peaceful demonstration be taken over by Anarchist. And, China is very good at dealing with Anarchist. The USA should ask for China's help in dealing with the Anarchist Terrorist banned thru out the world: ANTIFA. As, the West Coast Liberals think ANTIFA are the good guys.

The UK is with NATO; I don't think Boris will let China walk all over the UK as Thersa did

It's going to be interesting to see how the Commonwealth will react to that move, if it happens. (Hopefully it won't) Unfortunately the UK, with whom the agreement was signed in the first place, are in turmoil, and might not react at all.