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Let's take it a step further, and imagine a complete Internet blackout in HK, both consumer and commercial, even if just for a day or a week.

I'm thinking up scenarios of how China can do a modern Tianamen and get away with it.

I'd be happy to conclude that it isn't possible, but I'm not sure if I might be forgetting something...




Satellite comms would still work. But you raise an important point, as it's a strategic issue in the region: https://www.asiasentinel.com/econ-business/taiwan-fears-chin...


forcing someone to obey you rather than just destroying them for defiance suggest you need them around for something. Im wondering just what a tyrant would have left to occupy thier time when all of the tyrannized are deceased.




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