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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 13 2019, @11:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the he-said-she-said dept.

China said on Friday the joint declaration with Britain over Hong Kong, which laid the blueprint over how the city would be ruled after its return to China in 1997, was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance.

In response, Britain said the declaration remained in force and was a legally valid treaty to which it was committed to upholding.

The stark announcement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, that is sure to raise questions over Beijing’s commitment to Hong Kong’s core freedoms, came the same day Chinese President Xi Jinping said in Hong Kong the “one country, two systems” formula was recognized “by the whole world”.

It was not immediately clear if Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang was attacking just the idea of continued British involvement in Hong Kong, which marks the 20th anniversary of Chinese rule on Saturday, or the principles in the document.


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  • (Score: 2) by quietus on Wednesday August 14 2019, @03:07AM (2 children)

    by quietus (6328) on Wednesday August 14 2019, @03:07AM (#879943) Journal

    Combined with the repeated mantra of '200 years of humiliation', I don't think the Chinese are much good at playing the long game either.

    They've annoyed the EU by their 16+1 initiative [thediplomat.com]. They're setting themselves up for future trouble in Africa with their old approach [cadtm.org] to neo-colonialism [almariam.com]. They've obviously pissed of the United States.

    And now they're starting to get on the nerves of their immediate neighbors -- I guess more than one official in the Russian [uhrp.org], Vietnamese [foreignpolicy.com] and Cambodian [wikipedia.org] governments will draw a parallel with the annexation of Sudetenland.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 14 2019, @05:10AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 14 2019, @05:10AM (#879993)

    What makes you include the Cambodians? Besides not being immediate neighbors, in history the Chinese put the genocides into power in Cambodia, the Vietnamese threw them out and then China lost a war against Vietnam. If Cambodia has been anything but a puppet, they still seem to be actively useful as a base for Chinese extraordinary rendition ops.

    • (Score: 2) by quietus on Wednesday August 14 2019, @04:16PM

      by quietus (6328) on Wednesday August 14 2019, @04:16PM (#880298) Journal

      How many Cambodians are happy with the Khmer Rouge episode? Seems to me a prime example what Chinese realpolitik considers acceptable -- and what happened once, can happen again.