Oscarcharliezulu t1_isgol47 wrote on October 15, 2022 at 9:11 PM

Reply to comment by mrgodail in India Falls To 107 From 101 In Global Hunger Index, Behind Pak, Nepal by [deleted]

I guess Hong Kong was last an British Empire land grab.

paradoxbound t1_isjhtcj wrote on October 16, 2022 at 1:40 PM

Hong Kong was returned to the empire it was carved from. Never mistakenly call China a country. It always has been an empire carved out of various nations.

Oscarcharliezulu t1_isn5od0 wrote on October 17, 2022 at 5:55 AM

Exactly right. That’s also the way the British thought till the war of independence. And Ghandi and India moving away from the empire.

Mist_Rising t1_ishotdt wrote on October 16, 2022 at 1:47 AM

All of the Chinese port cities were Chinese in name, they were 99 year loans the Europeans carved out of China.

Which I guess is slightly better than the usual method of European colonization, which didn't bother with figuratives.