Jiang Zemin Reveals Details of Hong Kong's Handover: Rejecting a £1 Billion Lease Extension for Hong Kong, Saying He Would Never Be Like Li Hongzhan

[ety]

If the 1990s China was sacrificed, and the US was seriously hurt and weakened.

An Euro-Russian axis was bound to happen.

Since the dynamic of history would be completely changed if the US decided to enter war against China in 1996.

I think Germans and Russians have too much hatred for each other as shown in the current Ukraine war. So a united Europe including Russia will be a distant possibility.

 

[retaxis]

Before China's transcension, it was indeed the German-Russian alliance that could encompass a territorial influence from Lisbon to Vladivostok a primary threat to the US.

From the US establishment point of view, it is better to keep the weaker Germany like a big blood bag for the US like Japan, and a weakened but rogued Russia keeps acting as the boogeyman that provides a reason for the US to stay and control Europe.

So they can focus their energy to tackle against China when both Europe and East Asia are in their thrall.

Thats why they Say the US is in Europe to Keep the Russians out, The Germans down and the Americans In.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

I think Germans and Russians have too much hatred for each other as shown in the current Ukraine war. So a united Europe including Russia will be a distant possibility.

Well, the modern hatred between Germans and Russians was primarily manufactured by the US.

Before the Ukrainian war, many German elites viewed Russia as their most potential ally to resist a world dominated by the US or China.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Thats why they Say the US is in Europe to Keep the Russians out, The Germans down and the Americans In.

The US now is quite successful to turn Germany into their blood bag like Japan and South Korea, that's why the German economy keeps faltering like Japan.

Whereas the weakened Russia is kept as a rogue bogeyman for the US to keep controlling Europe.

They want to fully control both Europe and Asia and to fully mobilize the global resources to contain against China.

However, the only dilemma for them is that China is still much stronger than they expected which can defy all the economic/technological sanctions, whereas China's economic engine is still steaming full ahead even with the complete blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.

 

[ety]

China militarily was still pretty weak in 97, we still had like 155mm artillary on ships etc because we didn't have proper weapon systems. But regardless of how militarily weak china was compared to today, it will never allow westerners to steal land again.

If Britain could win a war against China in HK in the 1990s, Britain would not had given back HK to China. Thatcher wanted to keep HK as a British colony. After Britain won the Falkland war against Argentina, Thatcher asked her military advisor if a war against China in defend of HK could be won by Britain, his military advisor told her it was unattainable. So she gave up the idea of going to war with China and negotiated the the return of HK to China instead.

 

[retaxis]

If Britain could win a war against China in HK in the 1990s, Britain would not had given back HK to China. Thatcher wanted to keep HK as a British colony. After Britain won the Falkland war against Argentina, Thatcher asked her military advisor if a war against China in defend of HK could be won by Britain, his military advisor told her it was unattainable. So she gave up the idea of going to war with China and negotiated the the return of HK to China instead.

Thats what I remember as well. As long as the US didn't get involved HK was always going back to China just like Macau

 

[Waz]

Now hopefully the peaceful reunification of Taiwan to complete the motherland. China bros stay strong and patient.

 

[ety]

Thats what I remember as well. As long as the US didn't get involved HK was always going back to China just like Macau

Even if US wanted to get involved, China was bent to get it back. China had no choice, the leases was up, China no way was going to extend or sign new lease. US wouldn't go to war with China, and China would fight the US on Chinese soil for that.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Even if US wanted to get involved, China was bent to get it back. China had no choice, the leases was up, China no way was going to extend or sign new lease. US wouldn't go to war with China, and China would fight the US on Chinese soil for that.

The US is aware that it cannot defeat China in the Asia-Pacific region, but it gonna use Taiwan to disrupt China's development.