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Re:U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row wit... by huffmsa on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:21AM (#23348278)
Never should have given up the island in the first place.

The shitshow divestment of the Empire is the reason for many of the ethnographic and political conflicts the world currently faces.

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Re:U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row wit... by La1n on Friday May 29, 2020 @08:09AM (#23348985)
>Never should have given up the island in the first place.

They should never have colonized it in the first place.

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Re:U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row wit... by tasubotadas on Friday May 29, 2020 @08:26AM (#23349141)
Why? HKers are better off now because of that and probably the UK is now better off as well.
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Re:U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row wit... by La1n on Friday May 29, 2020 @10:39AM (#23350412)
Maybe there are better off now, but for a long time people lived under segregation and were discriminated against, the majority population had no say in any of the politics for a long time. Erasure of culture and language of the natives. Import of opium, an addictive drug, with war being fought over being able to keep selling it. Colonialism has a giant impact on a people.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2348771

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wretched_of_the_Earth

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Re:U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row wit... by frank2 on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:28AM (#23348325)
They didn't have a choice: if they hadn't given it up at the negotiating table, Beijing would've just taken it from them by force.
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Re:U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row wit... by billfruit on Friday May 29, 2020 @11:08AM (#23350811)
Also like 80% of the territories of HK was due to go to China in 1997 due to they being leased by UK only for 99 years. Holding on to remaining 20% of the territories would have been really untenable.
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