Gibraltar has a basically open border with Spain though, and it depends a lot on goods and workers from across the border

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)

My father refuses to believe that HK island was ceded in perpetuity in the treaty that was signed in the 1830s

@@lzh4950 Well calling "perpetuity" clauses in any way legitimate would also mean the Treaty of Shimonoseki still puts Formosa under Japanese rule

Thanks for watching

@Trevor B Yeah, right! you are a brainwashed

@@TonyZmex you think they are better behind the Chinese Communist censorship?

@@da4127 if Censorship means to not allow the CIA and US tech companies propaganda and lies to spread out and promote terrorist acts against the Chinese government, well I agree with that type of censorship. Also if you study a little history, Hong Kong was and is part of China, the UK 🇬🇧 stole it for 99 years and it had to return it. Now the USA wants to help the UK to recover it but that’s not going to happen!

@@TonyZmex CIA also stubbed your toe this morning, they are so evil!

It’s provided from Malaysia. It’s a national security interest for them too.

At a friendly 3 Malaysian cents per 1000 gallon. Have to honour it in 1962. For most Malaysians with no ties with Singapore,it's very challenging to accept the status quo.

@looes74 looes74 it the problem is, it's hard to convince Malaysians that it's not as lopsided as it looks like.

Singapore gets it's water from Malaysia pre independence on treaty sign and filed at UN ! The real cost of our water I explained to HK people...is that every Singaporean a nd even 2nd generation PR have to serve National Service...for 2 years...and do in camp traing (some years involving oversea training that can lasted a month.) Be ready to mobilise in 6 hrs ...should Malaysia break this treaty ! Fortunately that have never happened...and Singapore is working toward total self dependency on water..with expensive water recycling network (every drain sewage drainage...are treated and recycled ).and reverse osmosis water plant !

@@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

If I recall correctly, Chiang largely echoed the PRC’s HK sovereignty claims. He had begun agitating for its return before the outbreak of WW2. As for the Taiwan sovereignty claim over the South China Sea, I recall it came during a time during the Ma administration - when Taiwan and mainland were very close.

@@Asianometry Based on my understanding, the ASEAN countries are disappointed with Taiwan's stance on the South China Sea claim. This is low-hanging fruit for Taiwanese diplomacy. Taiwan needs all the friends it can get.... Taiwan's industrial policy re. localisation of offshore wind is also a diplomatic own-goal. Wanting European companies to manufacture locally in Taiwan and transfer technology in return for access to Taiwan offshore wind projects is a risky strategy. If the Taiwanese govt makes it difficult for European companies in Taiwan, then this could backfire, and European governments could make things difficult for Taiwanese companies operations/exports in Europe. Trade relationships tend to be based on reciprocity....

Makes a lot of sense. Perhaps some other form of reciprocity can be found elsewhere. Maybe a fab in Europe.

@@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"

I'd agree the youth are misguided in their desire for democracy. If you're truly a Singapore native, do you really need an explanation as to why HKers hate mainlanders?

@@michaelfung4629 Sure they see Chinese tourists envy them..that no good reason is it ! Also years of education..that teaches them of the evil empire ! Plus the churches in HK...also preaching about the evil communist...plus American backhand funding to incite the youth. HK$ 1000 for a day of rioting....This is what..a HK youth holidaying in Singapore told me !

That 94% is totally misleading, but I agree, they should be angry at the decisions taken in old time by their people, not mainlanders, the CPC is merely getting what they got from Britain legally.

@@da4127 94% is studies conducted by Harvard University...so now Harvard is a 2nd rated University .....

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

Mhm.

The chinese want as much territory as they can claim, but they cannot take taian or they would start world war 3, hong kong was already hakf negotiated before the 70s so of course they were going to take it