BREAKING NEWS 12/08/2019 The Royal States of America to Annex Hong Kong Announcement comes suddenly and unexpectedly amid rising tensions with China. In a rather surprising and abrupt announcement from Cloverly Palace, HRH King Alexander IV has called a special session of the Continental Congress to immediately deliberate and vote upon a proposed "enabling act" to grant statehood to, and annex, the currently boiling Island of Hong Kong. Literally no one has known of the intent nor the very idea of annexation until we were handed this dispatch from Clovery a few minutes ago. There were whispers of American support for the oppressed territory, but nothing this strong. HRH has surprised us all with this bold, brave, and defiant stance against the tyrants of the far east. Tensions have been simmering between the ARS and PRC in recent years due to their increasingly aggressive stance on sea territories bordering our Royal States of Visayas, Mindanao, and Luzon in the Philippine Archipelago. They've reached a new head as the PRC tries to suppress freedom loving people in the semi-independent Hong Kong, as America stands behind the ideas of equality and free speech. Sources inside the Continental Congress have revealed more information than what the official dispatch has announced. President of The Senate Hillary Clinton (Duchess of New York), has all but guaranteed that the Senate will pass a resolution unanimously to call upon China to abandon Hong Kong. Whilst the Tribune of the People's House, Madam Pelosi, will call a floor vote to pass the enabling act in a few days. A two-thirds majority of the 375 members of Congress* is required to add this new state, and it is not as likely to be successful as the Senate resolution. The Peoples' House is the only truly independent voting bloc in the government, besides the Supreme Court, and resistance to a whole new state immediately and suddenly will be expected. The Fifteen Reps from the Philippines are almost certainly going to forestall it, fearing that they will be the first targets of conflict should war break out between the PRC and ARS. Madam Pelosi has said she'll do all that is required to maintain a fair vote, but when the Crown moves so abruptly (a very rare event), the gravitas it carries is quite well felt in ever hall of government. The tale of Hong Kong's annexation is now being relayed to us. We apologize for editorializing and writing this piece as the news breaks, but such is our world. It seems that when the PRC truly began to suppress the riots in Hong Kong months ago, American intelligence operatives began to insert themselves into the city to watch for any potential threat to the Philippine states. Weeks ago, when the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong was put under siege operatives for the American Frumentarius Agency (AFA) began to negotiate with student leaders figure out how to end this crisis. Left on its own Hong Kong is certainly doomed to suppression and state violence. A petition for statehood was drafted by student leaders and secretly moved across the city, allegedly {needs confirmation} gaining millions of signatures. It was smuggled (we apologize again) within a Chinese-American's...digestive system...out of the city, cleaned, and presented to HRH King Alexander IV by Frumentarius agents, leading to today's events. That petition is being used as the statehood request for the Continental Congress. HRH Alexander IV will be addressing the nation, and The Peoples' House in the coming days. Comments (12428) POPULAR moesoldlegs Not_My_Duterte CONTROVERSIAL Red_SonOfTheEast Click to see more... |
OOC: This nation actually does operate on a equal time frame as real life, but it will be amended for the conflict as it move along. This thread will be for IC reactions, royal debates, etc. etc. It is diplomatic for now, so please no declaring war to overthrow the monarchy. Standard rules apply. No godmodding, OP's word is god's law, and posts must be at least a paragraph in length. Conflict may arise later on. I also apologize for my google translated Filipino there haha.
*375 members for the 75 states in the Kingdom. 9 Canadian Provinces (Quebec is a semi-indepedent puppet state), 11 Mexican States (coalesced tiny states), 3 Philipine States, Cuba and The West Indies. We don't do proportional representation in this country. The Senate is entirely appointed nobility, artists, businessmen and academic elites.
One more thing. This is a nation set in a modern day United States, albeit with a vastly different history (Europa Universalis 4-Victoria 2 conversion), so there will be inspiration taken from IRL politics and characters who are IRL politicians (Hillary Clinton *is* the President of The Senate for Example while Trump is deceased). Please try not to be too toxic about politics, please.