It still illegally holds these properties today.
The communist Cuban government acceded to hosting Soviet nuclear missiles pointed at the US. This almost caused a nuclear war.
The US embargo was based on these and many other things.
It is hardly a comparable situation.
That's not anyone else's business. Countries should be free to a certain extent to act as they wish. It's not for America to decide what political system another country should have.
>The communist Cuban government acceded to hosting Soviet nuclear missiles...
I think you skipped a key part of history usually referred to as "Bay of Pigs Invasion"...
Until you nationalize American-owned businesses, then yes it is.
The embargo didn't ultimately work, and neither did the government.
I was just responding to the idea that an island that is no threat whatsoever to China, and which has never had nuclear missiles pointed at China, and which has not ever nationalized property from citizens of China was somehow equivalent to the Cuba situation.
It's a standard American imperial idea. The US seizure and continual occupation of Guantanamo Bay is "legal". Cubans reclaiming what Americans stole in other parts of Cuba is "illegal".
It's quite a joke. The US invading and seizing sugar plantations from 1898 to 1959 is legal, the American thieves being driven out is "illegal" and "without any compensation".
This sort of imperial hubris is why Arabian patriots have been flying planes into the Pentagon.
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