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Re:Hong Kong Leader Backs Down on China Law But More Protest... by throwaway44327 on Sunday June 16, 2019 @12:34AM (#20193855)
Throwaway because I don’t want to be brigaded.

It appears Britain only tried to give them democracy when they knew the writing was on the wall. That seems disingenuous to suggest it was China that blocked them.

While technically true, if Britain truly wanted to help the Hong King people, they would have offered citizenship and let them immigrate, like Portugal did for Macau.

Instead, the British tried to stop Portugal from doing so, because they didn’t want to offer the people of Hong Kong citizenship.

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Re:Hong Kong Leader Backs Down on China Law But More Protest... by atr_gz on Sunday June 16, 2019 @01:20AM (#20193975)
Interesting. I can promise you I'm not being disingenuous, even if I'm wrong. And I think "brigading" is more of a Reddit thing - it usually means when people from an opposing subreddit mass downvote a post.

I definitely think Britain should have offered citizenship. I'm surprised they didn't want to.

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