On the wall of the League of Social Democrats office, the Chinese characters for freedom are spelt out with court admission slips.

Members of the party take turns speaking into a microphone connected to a loudspeaker. They stand in front of a banner that reads “rather be ashes than dust”, written in Chinese. Founded close to 20 years ago, the party is known as the last protest group in Hong Kong.

“The red lines are now everywhere,” Chan Po Ying, the chair of the party, tells the BBC. “Our decision to disband was because we were facing a lot of pressure.”

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    16 hours ago

    Highly unlikely, there’s us military stationed on Taiwan and it’s not connected to the mainland by train like HK

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      8 hours ago

      And nobody even knows if the US administration would get involved in it. All depends on Orange’s mood on the day and whether his friends call him to “tell him good things”

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      16 hours ago

      There’s no US military stationed in Taiwan. The closest US bases are in Okinawa and the Philippines.

      The only “military” the US has in Taiwan are some training consultants for the taiwan army, there’s no boots on the ground.

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        7 hours ago

        No, and there weren’t in Ukraine, but the US has spent half a century and billions of dollars to ensure every last person on that island is ready to be sacrificed when the time comes.

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          3 hours ago

          Amazing how you attribute no fault to China, who would be doing the actual killing. No, instead it’s the US’ fault that China wants to murder these people.