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I gotta say I’m quite surprised the Communists in Beijing have held out as long as they have, thus allowing the world more time to see and absorb what’s going there. It’s also interesting that the mainland’s media was ignoring the protests at first, then suddenly started covering the “separatist” and “foreign-backed rioting” in Hong Kong. I guess the censorship in mainland China wasn’t working too well and they bit-the-bullet and went from ignore to threaten.

This is probably the final test of “One Country, Two Systems”. The Communists have been pushing that envelop for a long time now and it looks like it’s about to snap. If they take things directly into their own hands and suppress the protest violently, then “One Country, Two Systems” is dead to everyone. THAT is what they really fear. It’s the “promise” Beijing is now offering Taiwan for unification. If that promise proves to be horrifically and violently false, then the only option left for the Communists is to invade Taiwan to force unification under “One Country, One System”. If that happens, the world not only loses a vibrant democracy, China gains direct military access to the Western Pacific from which to threaten us and all our allies on that side of the planet.

The world needs to take a firm stand. If the Communist violently suppress the protests, and finally kill “One Country, Two Systems”, then the world should immediately respond by delisting Hong Kong as a separate economic entity and stripping it of any special privileges in trade, followed up by real sanctions to begin decoupling the world’s economy from China’s.

And as a special bonus, we should recognize, establish formal diplomatic relations, sign a FTA, and establish a defense alliance with Taiwan.

Just my take though. :)