Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
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#2Typical shoddy journalism. Bandies numbers about: '150.000', 'up to 3 million' , when talking about the numbers likely to qualify to come to UK but never actually tells us what the population of Hong Kong is in the first place. So is this everyone?... 50% of the population?... 25%?.. 10%?...
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#3This article lists some key provisions from the Chinese Communist Party's security law:
Re: Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
#4US has as well to some extent [1]. I hope the entire Anglosphere follows suit (CAN/AUS/NZ).
[1]https://www.wsj.com/articles/hong-kong-police-make-first-sec...
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#5Is this an attempt to fill immigration gaps after EU immigration collapses? I don't believe the government actually cares about anything that going on in HK.
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#6If I was China, I would love for the US and the UK to take the law-aware and dissident people off my hands.
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#7Is this an attempt to fill immigration gaps after EU immigration collapses? I don't believe the government actually cares about anything that going on in HK.
Does it matter? The UK needs skilled workers and HKers need a place to live that won't try to kill them.
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#8Typical shoddy journalism. Bandies numbers about: '150.000', 'up to 3 million' , when talking about the numbers likely to qualify to come to UK but never actually tells us what the population of Hong Kong is in the first place. So is this everyone?... 50% of the population?... 25%?.. 10%?...
A quick Google would tell you the population of Hong Kong is 7,500,700 (2019 estimate).
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#9Is this an attempt to fill immigration gaps after EU immigration collapses? I don't believe the government actually cares about anything that going on in HK.
I wouldn't be surprised if the government thought exactly that, but I don't think it would work - HKers are mostly urban and well-educated, especially the politicized groups that are worried by Chinese rule. It's unlikely they will happily accept to become an underclass.
Still, it is the decent thing to do. It also underlines once again this country has no real power or influence left in the superpower age. Before, we could at least try to get the EU to go to bat for our interests, and have a real impact. We have none of that now, which is probably part of the reason the Chinese accelerated the process.