"We'll give some land to the n____s and the c____s....But We Don't Want The Irish!"
Posted on 07/28/2020 11:57:59 AM PDT by SJackson
Ivan Ko hopes to find site between Dublin and Belfast to host 50,000 fellow Hongkongers
A Hong Kong property tycoon wants to build a city in Ireland to host 50,000 emigrants from the semi-autonomous city.
Ivan Ko, the founder of the Victoria Harbour Group (VHG), an international charter city investment company, hopes to find a 50 sq km site between Dublin and Belfast to create a new city, named Nextpolis, from scratch.
Ko has pitched the plan, which would include schools that teach in Cantonese, to Irish officials, arguing it would fit the government’s stated desire to develop regions outside the capital.
Of six locations under consideration the favourite is a site between Drogheda and Dundalk, near the border with Northern Ireland and within striking distance of Dublin airport.
“We like Ireland,” Ko told the Guardian on Tuesday. “Corporate taxes are very low. You have a very strong manufacturing and biomedical companies. Major tech giants have European headquarters there. Overall we think Ireland is very good.”
A department of foreign affairs spokesperson in Dublin confirmed there had been talks with Ko but appeared to pour cold water on the idea. “Following an initial approach in December 2019, the department had limited contact with the individuals involved to provide helpful and realistic guidance about Ireland. Since providing this guidance there has been no further action taken by the department in this matter,” they said.
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It looks like he’s trying to rescue some remnant from the tyranny. Sad.
I see that as colonialism. Or reverse-colonialism, if you will.
People might possibly think it’s a swell idea now, but in the future, people will be outraged that it was allowed.
At this point I’m afraid that too many mainland ChiCom spies would be embedded with them.
Ain’t globalism grand? Hong Kong oligarch wants to build Shenzhen style Chinese ghetto with government help in Ireland, for those wealthy people who have enough money to flee the Chinese Communist takeover “because its low tax.”
Back in the 90’s before the Brits handed it back it appeared all of Hong Kong was going to wind up in Vancouver. Hongcouver became it’s new nickname. Perhaps they should have gone there when they had the chance.
How about building a new city in Taiwan ? Or is Taiwan too built up already.
Will native Irish be allowed to move to this new planned city?
Wouldn’t it be discrimination if they didn’t allow native Irish to live in a new planned city on Irish territory?
Will the Hong Kong refugees become Irish citizens?
There’s a lot of details to work out on such a plan.
too close to the PRC..
Ireland would no longer be Ireland.
His best bet would be to find some out of the way place in Australia.
"We'll give some land to the n____s and the c____s....But We Don't Want The Irish!"
Usually I’m against mass immigration like this but any country or state would be lucky to get 50,000 anti-Communists in today’s world.
Probably better if they started small with a hamlet of no more than 20 people.
Send them to Greenland.
“...but in the future, people will be outraged that it was allowed.”
Yep. If you bring refugees in from a society, they should be obligated to adapt to the new culture.
“Shenzhen style Chinese ghetto”
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You have at least heard of Hong Kong haven’t you?
OKAY, EVERBODY!
BC humor:
Do you know what separates India from China?
The Fraser River.
For those who are not familiar with the Vancouver metro area, the Fraser comes in from the mountains in the east, and runs between Surrey and Richmond BC. Surrey is heavily East Indian, while Richmond is heavily Hong Kong.
How much money does Ko stand to gain/make, is the question I want to know.
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