Current Events > China warns UK not to offer citizenship to Hong Kong residents

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54655285

China has told Britain to "immediately correct its mistakes" after the UK reaffirmed its plan to offer a route to British citizenship to almost three million people living there.
The offer was made in July when Beijing imposed a strict national security law on the former British colony.
Critics say it undermines the civil freedoms that China agreed to uphold when Hong Kong was handed back in 1997.
Beijing has previously warned the UK not to meddle in "domestic issues".


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Curious to see how this plays out. If we suddenly have a million UK citizens living in HK, the UK would be required to protect them.

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Seeing as how Hong Kong used to belong to the UK, the citizens should have every right to British citizenship should they so choose
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China really hates WMAF

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what are they really going to do ... nuts to them

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This is exactly the kind of stuff my mother was worried would happen when Hong Kong went back to China.

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Does UK call their bluff? Who knows.
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sktgamer_13dude posted...

Does UK call their bluff? Who knows.

The UK tends to be pussies with their foreign policies, so they'll back down.

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it might not be a popular thing to say but honestly HK should have been retained be britain

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pogo_rabid posted...

The UK tends to be pussies with their foreign policies, so they'll back down.

this

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shockthemonkey posted...

A post-Brexit UK has less leverage than they would have with full EU trade deals

They were also less flexible by having to act as part of a whole, instead of being the whole.

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Well well how the turntables. 19th century = China bullied by UK. 21st century = UK bullied by China.

Be careful who you call ugly in middle school.

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teepan95 posted...

Seeing as how Hong Kong used to belong to the UK, the citizens should have every right to British citizenship should they so choose

They originally wanted to offer that to them but China was very against it at the time fearing a brain drain. But they were fairly hands off until recently so most Hong Kongers didn't care much. Now in hindsight it is really too bad the UK didn't stick on that point.

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pogo_rabid posted...

The UK tends to be pussies with their foreign policies, so they'll back down.

I mean Argentina thought that and it went very badly. Honestly hard to know what will happen.

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ssjevot posted...

I mean Argentina thought that and it went very badly. Honestly hard to know what will happen.

Sure, but Argentina is a foot note compared to China.

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Funkydog posted...

Sure, but Argentina is a foot note compared to China.

But they aren't going to be involved in military action here, at most China would implement trade restrictions.

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ssjevot posted...

But they aren't going to be involved in military action here, at most China would implement trade restrictions.

Most likely, yeah. Just meant they are an actual concern and not something to trivialise.

Still fuck em though, and hope we do follow through with the promise. No one should suffer under a dictatorship.

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Funkydog posted...

Sure, but Argentina is a foot note compared to China.

Argentina doesn't pretty much own the UKs economy and make all the medicine that the UK needs

A jerk might kick a dog but no jerk is going to try to kick a speeding locomotive

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