Britain has no constitutional authority, legislative authority, interpretive authority, supervisory jurisdiction, or veto power over Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is governed under the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China and the Basic Law enacted by the National People’s Congress.
British rule ended on 30 June 1997. The Sino-British Joint Declaration did not preserve any British authority over Hong Kong after the restoration of Chinese sovereignty.
Today China is not the China of the Opium Wars.
Today Britain is not the Britain on which the sun never sets.
Stop your colonial delusions.
You can never trust CCP. Because they only use democratic countries and never think about integrating or cooperating. If a country wants to be a friend of the CCP, it should first become a dictatorship, and then tell the CCP: We don't need you change. just give us money.
Xi Jinping and his criminal Chinese Communist Party have proven time and time and time again that no treaty, no convention, no contract, no agreement, no concordat and no deal that it signs can ever be trusted - sooner or later, Beijing will break it
China’s broken promises over Hong Kong show contempt for freedom
As the trials of democracy campaigners conclude, Beijing has completed the dismantling of agreements on free elections and free speech made before 1997
https://t.co/NlmAPnUvj4
Exactly. I hope President Zelensky was just being polite. We must always, always be wary of communist countries, especially communist dictatorships like the CCP, which are very adept at disguising their true nature. They always say nice things but do dirty work.
Really? Thank them?
China is one of the major reasons Russia can continue financing and supplying this war machine.
You want economic ties with Beijing while Ukrainians are being killed with weapons produced using Chinese components?
At some point, “partnership” has to mean something. You cannot claim friendship with Ukraine while simultaneously enabling the country invading it.
Partners who sleep with both your allies and your enemies aren’t partners. They’re opportunists.
You're overthinking it. You don't realize that from the official level to the general public, China actually supports Russia. In most people's eyes, Ukraine is considered America's lapdog, and its invasion by Russia was deserved. Of course, not everyone thinks that way.
I thank Chinese leader Xi Jinping for his congratulations to Ukraine on our most important national holiday. Independence is an unconditional value for Ukrainians, as it is for all other sovereign nations. We appreciate that over these 35 years, we have built relations with China based on mutual respect and full recognition of the values of our peoples. We count on further cooperation and on China playing a strong diplomatic role in bringing Russia’s war against our country to an end. Peace can be our shared achievement.
In fact, most Chinese people don't know why Taiwan must be part of China.Their logic is this: the CCP says Taiwan is part of China, and the CCP is always right, therefore Taiwan is part of China.
Chinese student in New Zealand, Rita Jing (抖音 @rita Jing), posted a video on 13 August 2026 while studying at a language school.
In the video she says:
“Many classmates here introduce themselves by only saying they are from Taiwan or from Hong Kong. Every time I hear this I feel speechless. Let me make it clear here: Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Taiwan is an inseparable part of China. There is no separate Taiwan or separate Hong Kong. The correct way is always Chinese Hong Kong, Chinese Taiwan.”
Three days later (16 August), she posted another video in which she is visibly distressed, wiping tears and speaking with a shaking voice.
She says the previous video caused her to receive a large volume of threatening private messages and thousands of critical comments on Instagram.
She states she is “really scared,” does not want to be isolated as the only mainland Chinese student in her class, does not want to “become Mina,” and repeatedly asks people to stop scolding her. The same clip shows her packing clothes in her room.
However, Subsequent reporting and her own later posts indicate she had also been trying to obtain a longer Australian student visa in order to remain overseas longer.
That application was refused, and with her New Zealand visa approaching expiry she prepared to return to Shanghai.
She really really doesn’t want to go back to China.
How much of a reduction in your father's sentence can you get by saying all this? Will it be changed from life imprisonment to Medical parole Or will he get better air conditioning and fine wine in prison?
On the surface, matching tariffs dollar for dollar looks tough: 3/4 of everything Canada exports goes to the US, and those goods account for about 1/5 of Canadian economy. The same trade is only worth about 1% of America’s.
But Canada is a great middle power whose advantage lies in having flexible, polyamorous relations. China can pick up the slack and blunt the bite of those tariffs. It’s been going in that direction - the new Pacific pipeline, ginger steps on Chinese EVs, more canola exports etc.
However, opportunistic volumes are not true diversification. With the weight of experience, Canada needs a supply-side shift that treats China as a long-term partner. Such structural change is hard and politically cumbersome. It still has to be done.
Start by scrapping the EV restrictions which is largely protectionist of American interests. Build Chinese auto factories instead. Take in Chinese machinery and parts (which are the top US-Canada trade), expand Pacific routes, and buy Great Wall wine.
Today is the chance to discuss a free-ish trade agreement. Quit the virtue signalling that always ends up in fruitless bickering. What actually matters is mutual prosperity.