The quote from the New York Times is an unmitigated lie. They were taken to task about at the time and I can tell you BECAUSE I WAS THERE that it did NOT happen. I had a company presence in Sheung Shui, a small town near the border, a friend with a pub in Fanling just a mile this side of that town. The highway runs past both premises. The troops came in quietly to barracks previously prepared by the British government, one next to a club of which I was a member at the time and who invited the senior military officials to attend, the other an extensive centre that had previously housed the Ghurkas in Shek Kong. ALL PLA vehicles are marked and their soldiers never appear in their uniforms unless engaged on official ceremonial business. They are under strict instruction never to get involved in the life of Hong Kong and their behaviour is beyond reproach. Their presence has not affected the politics of Hong Kong and, apart from a little and understandable trepidation in 1997, they have not affected the economy or any other aspect of the people's lives. They certainly have had no influence on the politics of the place.
Doubtless, as an American of limited cranial capacity and used to your crew-cut brain dead grunts raping Japanese women and haphazardly shooting innocent foreigners, you would find that difficult to comprehend.
Anyway, there is a good side to this, for everytime you try a pot shot at me you do research and learn something about the world outside your institution.
Don't bother to respond. You are still on ignore but, as this morning, I sometimes skim through the posts before logging in and note that neither you nor Yurt have yet become human. I guess your god just made you that way.