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   From: acoustic@panix.com   
      
   In article <67b5e2e0-0635-4848-aeb7-770ee55bfe8e@googlegroups.com>,   
   bmoore   wrote:   
   >"We shall not hesitate to take positive action to have Hong Kong,   
   >Kowloon and New Territories liberated," Liao Chengzhi, a senior Chinese   
   >official in charge of Hong Kong affairs, was reported to have said in   
   >1960, referring to the areas under British administration that would   
   >later be returned to China.   
      
   Hong Kong was a colony at the time.  That was the time when Egypt,   
   India, and many other former colonies of western imperialism finally   
   rose up and said "enough is enough".  The term "liberation" was not   
   only appropriate, but fashionable.  And the Chinese Premier and   
   statesman Zhou Enlai was seen hobnobbing with Egypt's Gamal Abdul   
   Nasser and India's Jawaharlal Nehru, as representatives of nations   
   that arose from European colonialism.   
      
   Only blind imperialist lackeys today continue to be blind to how the   
   Chinese people of 1.2 billions have been feeling since 1919's May 4th   
   Movement.  Nobody has any business talking about China without first   
   understanding the modern history of China.   
      
   The word was apropos - apropos with reference to the situation being   
   discussed.   
      
   lo yeeOn   
      
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