China threatens to trap up to 3 million people in Hong Kong by no longer recognizing their UK overseas passports

Business Insider ^ | 07/31/2020 | Adam Payne

[Buckeye McFrog]

They should have gotten out in 1997 while they still could have.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

I really hope and pray something just finally gives in that part of the world. All the better it it impacts our elections and media narratives too.

Freedom for Hong Kong! 🇭🇰
Freedom for China! 🇨🇳

[CatOwner]

They made the same mistake most conservatives here make: assumed the US Government would protect them.

[DIRTYSECRET]

A lot of them wound up in SF. Property values and vehicles went up.

[windsorknot]

LeBron couldn’t care less. He’s busy chasing “systemic racism” butterflies.

[caltaxed]

Vancouver real estate exploded years back due to an influx of Hong Kong money.

Things slowed down after they were fleeced by the Canadian tax man.

[minnesota_bound]

The NBA approves what Chinese communists are doing.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeMZ2c7UwAAoCWW.jpg

[edwinland]

"We have a thousand reasons to make this relationship successful and not one reason to make it fail."

And despite that they will still find a way.

[Grampa Dave]

Can we trade 3 million BLMers for hard working non communist Hong Kong Chinese?

[DesertRhino]

Hong Kong has an airport, can they not board there now, or does Red China already run their airport?

Also, two can play at that game. Don’t allow anyone with a passport from mainland China into the UK.

[DesertRhino]

“We have a thousand reasons to make this relationship successful and not one reason to make it fail.””

I can think of one. You are a totalitarian dictatorship that just unleashed a virus on the world while lying about it.

[meatloaf]

And the winner is:

“Don’t allow anyone with a Chinese passport to enter the US.”

[DesertRhino]

Just give them a regular British passport and not the ersatz BNO (British national Overseas) one.
Have them swear and renounce communism and red Chinese citizenship.

But in any case, if you are a HK citizen, now is 1938 and you are a Jew in Germany. Time to find a way... soon.

[DesertRhino]

We are probably at the last moments we can seriously impede communist China. And we have probably 80% of Congress and Wall Street siding with them in one form or another.

We have a problem.

[Sirius Lee]

This will china even more respectable in Senator Feinswine’s eyes.

[StormEye]

Since the Chi-Comms have reneged on the aggrement to allow
the fifty years of autonomy for Hong Kong
the UK should just reclaim Hong Hong. Reinstall the
Governor General, send in the British army and navy and
and prepare for war with communist China.

Of course Britain is totally unprepared for such a fight
and would most likely lose. They'd need the USA, Australia,
etc to help liberate HK. And that's not going to happen.

[meatloaf]

Mega problem soon to be addressed by MAGA.

I suggest Pompeo call up China and tell them Trump is getting ready to recognize Taiwan as an independent country and BTW we’ll be basing a carrier group there if they continue their shit.

[Tai_Chung]

Threaten to recognize Taiwan if China follows through with their threat.

[beancounter13]

I agree with your analysis:

I do not think even the CCP would threaten to detain 3M citizens of the UK.