Comments by "Zhi Han Lee" (@lzh4950) on "British Hong Kong's Strategic Error? About Hong Kong's Water Supply" video.

  1.  @Asianometry  Heard from another YT documentary that Taiwan/ROC not echoing mainland China's/the PRC's territorial claims would violate the "1 China" principle & thus spark war. & since the latter challenges the former's sovereignty, ASEAN countries would be unwilling to establish ties (at least formally) with the former. Back in 2013 a Taiwanese fisherman was fatally shot by a Philippine Coast Guard in an area of the S China Sea where both Taiwan/ROC's & the Philippines' EEZs overlap, & the latter has refused to negotiate with the former to de-conflict their EEZs because the spokesperson said IIRC "Taiwan is not a country"
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  2.  @Asianometry  We've quite a number or reservoirs to collect rainwater too, besides desalination & water recycling (NEWater) plants plus some water bought from neighbouring Malaysia. There's also a 30% water tax that goes up to 45% if you're a domestic user & your consumption exceeds a certain amount
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  3. There's Singapore also, & its reliance of foreign labour & talent has been believed to also have been a limiting factor to how tightly it could close its borders during the pandemic. We also import ~90% of the food, so when their prices rise, the gov't would be more easily able to blame it on imported inflation also I think (vegetable prices from neighbouring Malaysia have doubled in some years, while some fishes now reportedly go for almost S$10 (~US$6.35)/100g during the Chinese New Year festive season as of the time of writing)
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  4.  @alantan9863  Meanwhile Singapore argues that it also sells back to Malaysia some of the water it treats after importation from Malaysia at below-market rates at 20 sen /gal
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  5. Was previously thinking also how China's Communist Party might've felt too when seeing Ops Coldstore & Spectrum plus other anti-Communist activities in Singapore previously, & also when seeing that there're rebels (Naxalites) in India that revere Mao Zedong IIRC
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  6. My father refuses to believe that HK island was ceded in perpetuity in the treaty that was signed in the 1830s
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