Wonder how many of the eligible people are TSMC employees or contractors? :)
Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
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#22If I was China, I would love for the US and the UK to take the law-aware and dissident people off my hands.
Pretty soon the law-abiding and obedient people will become aware that life outside of authoritarianism is better and safer, and they will either run away or revolt.
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#23Why would they want to move to the declining country that is the UK.
I don't know if you aren't aware of the history - Hong Kong was a British colony until on this day in 1997. Many people in Hong Kong have very strong connections to the former Empire - many people married, there were many social, cultural, military connections, and so on.
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#24If I was China, I would love for the US and the UK to take the law-aware and dissident people off my hands.
Pretty soon the law-abiding and obedient people will become aware that life outside of authoritarianism is better and safer, and they will either run away or revolt.
And they'll be even more weakened because they are fewer in numbers.
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#25It's interesting to see how proactive a lot of developed countries are being with getting ready to welcome refugees from Hong Kong, especially compared to the Syrian crisis a few years ago.
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#26Is 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, w…
> Before, we could at least try to get the EU to go to bat for our interests, and have a real impact.
the same EU that rewrote its coronavirus report several times in fear of CCP repercussions?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/world/europe/disinformati...
come on
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#27It's interesting to see how proactive a lot of developed countries are being with getting ready to welcome refugees from Hong Kong, especially compared to the Syrian crisis a few years ago.
The UK in particular has a long historical relationship with Hong Kong. Plus, China is in clear breach of bilateral agreements with Britain.
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#28Why would they want to move to the declining country that is the UK.
I don't know if you aren't aware of the history - Hong Kong was a British colony until on this day in 1997. Many people in Hong Kong have very strong connections to the former Empire - many people married, there were many social, cultural, military connections, and so on.
Sure, but is nostalgia enough to move from a very advanced, high-tech city and highly educated society, to one where several dozen people are knifed in the capital every day and there isn't even AC in the tube in the summer, so people are collapsing from heat stroke.
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#29If I was China, I would love for the US and the UK to take the law-aware and dissident people off my hands.
Pretty soon the law-abiding and obedient people will become aware that life outside of authoritarianism is better and safer, and they will either run away or revolt.
This is exactly why I'm trying to move out of the USA.
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#30If I was China, I would love for the US and the UK to take the law-aware and dissident people off my hands.
It will disproportionately take away the more wealthy and better educated. The majority of HKers live in public housing, pay no tax and are unlikely to have the means to live in the UK since there will be no recourse to public funds.
This level of brain drain, as in the other mass migration events away from HK, could trigger the government to loosen their grip.