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2019-06-18 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-06-18 07:20|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 At it's height, British rule brought unparalleled levels of civility and efforts to gain prosperity to all its colonial territories. Now, Britain is intent on importing the worst of what they once fought to control in faraway lands, all in the name of white shame. May the good people of the UK push out the hair shirt crowd. Burn them alive if you must.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-06-18 07:49|| 2019-06-18 07:49|| Front Page Top

Earlier "failures" can be seen at this Kroonstad concentration camp cemetery. Lord Kitchener's solutions of circa 1903 still paying dividends.

I believe there were nearly 30 such camps. A large portion of the dead were infants and children.

'Regime Change' in action.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-06-18 07:54|| 2019-06-18 07:54|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm always reminded of what a character in one Conrad novel said when asked about bad behavior: "[That stuff is done] by the worst kind of (n-word) we've got around here..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-06-18 08:09|| 2019-06-18 08:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah let's not pretend the British were the good guys. They deliberately prolonged the potato famine, among other great crimes. They invented the concentration camp and used it against the Boers when they couldn't win with their army. The entire reason for the Boer War was to seize control of the diamond mines, which they thought of as unsuitable in the hands of a nation of farmers.

China is at fault here, not Britain. Shit on the media for blaming the wrong target.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-06-18 08:28|| 2019-06-18 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 There wasn't much the British could have done back then.

Well, maybe one thing. Giving Hong Hong true democracy in time could have helped.

Posted by European Conservative 2019-06-18 10:58|| 2019-06-18 10:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Giving Hong Hong true democracy in time could have helped.

Truly. But they were too busy ruling and playing pukka sahib to do the critical things necessary to prepare the locals for self rule. And the locals were too busy making money to demand it.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-06-18 11:36|| 2019-06-18 11:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Answer: Britain failed Britain.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-06-18 12:49|| 2019-06-18 12:49|| Front Page Top

#8 In the decade or so prior to the turn-over Britain and Australia should have found some chunk of rock on the uninhabited side of Australia and got some of those Hong Kong billionaires and Hong Kong based companies that moved to Vancouver and elsewhere to invest in New Hong Kong. Then in the month before turn-over gotten a massive flotilla together to move anyone and everyone willing to move. Hopefully leaving China with a rock.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-06-18 13:28|| 2019-06-18 13:28|| Front Page Top

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