Posted on 04/28/2021 9:21:03 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
HONG KONG, April 28 – Hong Kong’s legislature passed on Wednesday a controversial immigration bill, which lawyers, diplomats and right groups fear will give authorities unlimited powers to prevent residents and others from entering or leaving the Chinese-ruled city.
The government has dismissed those fears as “complete nonsense,” saying the legislation, which will come into effect on Aug. 1, merely aims to screen illegal immigrants at source amid a backlog of asylum applications and does not affect constitutional rights of free movement.
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Never Ever Trust the CCP. (Nor their #ComDem_Supporters in the US Government)
Looks like Hong Kong is the new East Berlin.
UK bastards caused this.
Thatcher’s biggest mistake.
The British have always been poor “allies”.
But this is because of the CCP Communist and how the Globalist view them.
This is about who will be the world currency.
It is about establishing a Globalist Totalitarian Government.
They can Pound Sand. I am NOT going there.
Hong Kong is not like East Berlin.
West Berlin was not Communist.
Hong Kong is like the Alamo.
Freedom dies under Totalitarianism.
Yes and the CCP have planned to replace Hong Kong with Shanghai for a long time and destroying Hong Kong is part of that.
“UK bastards caused this. Thatcher’s biggest mistake.”
I guess they could have nuked China, but short of that, it’s hard to see how they could have projected the force necessary to protect Hong Kong, when they could barely defeat Argentina in the Falklands a decade earlier.
If you want to blame anyone BLAME NIXON for going there and setting the stage to putting them on the road to becoming a superpower.
“BLAME NIXON for going there and setting the stage to putting them on the road to becoming a superpower.”
PRC were in no way a superpower when Thatcher acquiesced to ChiCom demands.
But, yes. Nixon and Kissinger are to blame. Their culpability goes way beyond Hong Kong.
The PRC wasn’t a superpower during the Korean War, but they clearly were a match for us...and that was DECADES before Thatcher had to deal with them.
If you REALLY believe that the UK could have stopped China from taking back Hong Kong you need to stop drinking that Neocon Koolaid.
How do you propose PRC was going to take Hong Kong other than under an international treaty the way it was done?
Yep
The same way they took North Korea and nearly took South Korea, despite our best efforts. It’s called GROUND FORCES, and they can muster quite a few of them.
I meant Hong Kong is like East Berlin in the sense that people will now be trying to flee it.
OK, I accept that. Many businessmen have already left Hong Kong and will never be back again.
“The same way they took North Korea and nearly took South Korea, despite our best efforts. It’s called GROUND FORCES, and they can muster quite a few of them.”
Could have done that any time.
Why didn’t they?
Back then Hong Kong was more valuable to China as a British colony in that they could access the huge, low-cost, Chinese labor pool, but without the tariffs that would be placed on China if they tried to export directly.
...and, of course, once the lease expired in 1997, Hong Kong was going to revert to China, unless China agreed to extend it, which they simply were not going to do. So China patiently waited and took it per the schedule turnover...no need for violence, which would have been highly counterproductive given China’s need (at the time) for access to Western technology.
Wrong.
There was no lease between PRC and UK.
The Emperor gave the Crown Hong Kong and Kowloon outright forever in two different treaties between the Emperor and Crown.
The lease in New Territories was not between UK and PRC.
PRC did not even recognize the lease.
I guess it depends what sites people go to. I only report on what I was reading at the time and what both sides involved were saying.
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