Comments by "Grenade Tennis" (@hughjass1044) on "Tom Bilyeu"
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I'm not sure I buy very much of this. In the first place, Hong Kong had its British lease expire and it legally belonged to China so it was always going to go back to them regardless. Besides, the population in Hong Kong was not descended from the Kuomintang and thus had no history of conflict with the mainland. And of course, the biggest difference of all; Hong Kong had no army.
China may think it has some legal claim on Taiwan but having such a claim and having other parties respecting that claim are not the same thing. China goes to some court and gets a ruling that Taiwan belongs to them and then what? The Taiwanese are just going to shrug their shoulders, say "well, that's that" and go back to work? Yeah; go ahead and make a wager on that happening.
And finally, there are fewer and fewer economists and analysts every day who are predicting China is going to become this mighty economic colossus in the years ahead. With the structural problems China has and the headwinds it's going to be facing in the years ahead; demographic collapse, awash in debt, cost of labor, and lack of allies being just a few, there are many who wonder how it's even going to survive more than another decade or so, much less dominate anything.
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