Offering the people of Crimea a referendum — on whether to secede from Ukraine and join the Russian Federation — may appeal to Vladimir Putin but he should not expect support from China. For two very simple reasons: Hong Kong and Taiwan. China claims these two territories as part of China, but there are no prizes for guessing the outcome if a similar referendum (to secede) were held in either territory.
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Taiwan, yes. But not Hong Kong, which is already taken back by China. The territory revolves around money. So long as Beijing doesn’t undercut that, the rest of the agitation about democracy, etc., are just so much noise. Of far greater concern to China are Tibet and Xinjiang.