Ttbn,

China will move in by 2047 ? They will move in well before October 1st, their national day, the 70th anniversary of the Communist revolution. In fact, they will want it all done and dusted well before October 1st. I.e., October 1st, 2019.

So it's inevitable that they will move in: maybe their tanks will occupy all of the city intersections, by the end of this week, or next week at the latest.

Remember Tien An Men in 1989.

Joe

Dear Loudmouth,

Can you also tell us the date when they will move into Australia? Basically the enemy is already inside the gate but if you can give us an exact date that would be good to know as well.

no wonder our Chinese cashed universities are so bent on preventing free speach.They will continue to build thousands of new coal fired power stations, dumb down our young and then laugh at the West's stupidity.

Dear runner,

This is all part of ScuMo's grand plan for Australia's Chinese future.

Misopinionated,

Is that supposed to be clever ? An exact date ? Otherwise what, you'll throw a tanty ?

I think China is moving towards a highly-educated, totalitarian state, with a levelling-off population (perhaps peaking by 2050), which won't need vast hordes of labourers for its work-force, or even a particularly big army to carry out aggressive acts against its neighbours, over the next twenty years. It has the means now to buy off many small and/or poor countries in our region, and to set up military bases there.

It's a longer game than a child may have the patience for, Misopinionated. But I think that China will act much more aggressively within the tenure of Xi Jin Ping, say in the next five years. It may come out on top of its trade war with the US, given that Trump has bullied pretty much every country and not won much for the US economy - China has too many cards up its sleeve. So its invasion of Australia will be step-by-step across the region, and perhaps in the next twenty years. Sorry I can't be more specific than that.

More urgently, of course, I am pessimistic that China will 'act' very, very soon in Hong Kong, perhaps this week.

Joe

I am also concerned that the Chinese Communist
Party according to some political commentators
prefers violence to perceived weakness.
I dread that Hong Kong might become another
Tiananmen Square.

Now hanging over Hong Kong as
the protests seem to be escalating is whether
Beijing is prepared to crush the protests
with force or whether the recent threats are
simply bluster - intended to spook the protestors.