Britain Knew It Was Abandoning Its Subjects in Hong Kong - And Now Millions of People Will Pay the Price for Britain's Decision

More than 1 million protest in Hong Kong, organizers say, over Chinese extradition law

[quote]Hong Kong (CNN)More than 1 million protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong Sunday, organizers said, to oppose a controversial extradition bill that would enable China to extradite fugitives from the city.

The mass of protesters would be the largest demonstration since the city was handed back to China in 1997. Civil Human Rights Front, the group that organized the protests, said 1.03 million people marched -- a figure that accounts for almost one in seven of the city's 7.48 million-strong population.

Critics say the bill will leave anyone on Hong Kong soil vulnerable to being grabbed by the Chinese authorities for political reasons or inadvertent business offenses and undermine the city's semi-autonomous legal system. [/quote]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/08/asia/hong-kong-extradition-bill-protest-intl/index.html

Britain should have allowed any subject to leave the colony AT THEIR CHOICE before turning over the area to Chinese authorities. They should have asked other Commonwealth nations to help resettle any of the 6.6 million residents who did not want to live under communist rule.

They should have left the Communist Chinese the land, water in the harbor (and I suppose the fish), plenty of empty building and homes and whatever pigeons and other birds that wished to stay in the area. But ALL THE PEOPLE should have been allowed to leave.

[b][big]For further reading, see:[/big][/b]

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2156385/britains-disgraceful-pre-handover-efforts-deny-nationality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nationality_law_and_Hong_Kong#British_Nationality_(Hong_Kong)_Act,_1990:_British_citizenship_for_50,000_Hong_Kong_families

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Burnley123 · 41-45, M

China is not communist and if it was, it would hardly have allowed Hong Kong to maintain (and grow) in its role as one of the world's big financial centres.

Its a place we Brits have no historic rights too and it only came about because of our brutal colonial legacy. I'm not sure what the Hong Kong people thought at the time it went back to Chinese territory, perhaps they were in favour? There is no solution which involves it going back to the Brits and nor should there be.

The Chinese State is brutal and anti democratic. I hope the Hong Kong people do get their way and have democracy but they have one hell of a fight.

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@Burnley123 [quote]The Chinese State is brutal and anti democratic.[/quote]

Then shouldn't that have been enough of a reason to allow people who were subjects of one nation to leave land being turned over to a "brutal and anti democratic" state?

Why can [b]NO ONE[/b] who is responding to my post actually [b]READ[/b] what I am being critical of?

Why is everyone trying to flip the question into something which I am [b]NOT[/b] advocating?

Not of a desire to turn the [b]LAND[/b] (i.e. dirt, concrete, grasslands, etc.) back to Britain but that Britain should have permitted the [b]PEOPLE[/b] who were [b]SUBJECTS[/b] of the Crown to resettle in Britain if [b]THEY[/b] so chose to.

The people, [b]people[/b], [b][big]PEOPLE[/big][/b].

Not the [b]LAND[/b].

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@beckyromero Well, I am responding to what you said.

you said resettle people in commonwealth countries and people have said why that is a bad idea. In addition, most Hong Kong citizens are culturally and ethnically Chinese.

Also China, in particular Hong Kong, is not communist.

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@Burnley123 [quote]you said resettle people in commonwealth countries and people have said why that is a bad idea.[/quote]

Why is that a bad idea?

Why would it have been a "bad idea" to have allowed British subjects in Hong Kong to relocate to Britain?

I find it amazing how many people critize the United States for Trump's despicable immigrations restrictions.

Yet when Britain placed restrictions on whether its own subjects to reclocate to Britain, they get a pass.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@beckyromero I'm generally pro-immigration. I'm anti-Brexit and wish Britain would take more numbers of refugees.

6 million Hong Kongers would be 10% of our population. Imagine the whole population of Canada immigrated to America overnight. It's clearly not gonna happen.

As I say, as people they are more Chinese than British anyway. The point is that they have their own distinct identity which is separate from either country.

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@Burnley123

1. We don't know that all 6 million 'Hong Kongers' would have left.

2. I said that Britain could have encouraged Commonwealth nations to help with the number of 'Hong Kongers' that wished to leave.

3. Britain could have asked other nations to help as well, including the United States.

Whether 'Hong Kongers' are "more Chinese than British" doesn't matter. They were British subjects.

soar2newhighs

Yeah, keep your fingers crossed. I'm an AF vet-I served in Taiwan, and I hope I'm long gone before I see Taiwan taken back by Beijing@Burnley123