UK opens door to citizenship for 300k HK residents

Re:UK opens door to citizenship for 300k HK residents by econcon on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:22AM (#23388156)

Why just HK, why not for all former colonies which UK is responsible for, there have been colonies where millions of people died because of British policies as a result a lot of their progenies have been completely trapped in poverty, when will they offer them citizenship?

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Re:UK opens door to citizenship for 300k HK residents by flingo on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:08AM (#23401120)

> Why just HK, why not for all former colonies which UK is responsible for

Prior to (and because of) a bunch of HK residents fleeing to the UK when china first started trying to assimilate it, it was much easier to get out of there and into the UK. (anything involving politics in the UK is never a single thing, it's probably about 40 interacting things, spread out over about 800 non-consecutive years.)

HK is really a special case, because it was doing so very well with "european-levels of freedom", and then china strong-armed them into giving it up. (I won't make a moral judgement on that, it's just worth point out how complicated the issue is.)

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Re:UK opens door to citizenship for 300k HK residents by zarkov99 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @10:33AM (#23391417)

Because the British, like everyone else, want immigrants that will contribute to the country and it is very likely the people coming from HK will, given that they are educated and industrious. But you probably knew what.

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Re:UK opens door to citizenship for 300k HK residents by thefounder on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:55AM (#23388378)

I think they selected 300k of the richest from HK. As you may have guessed it's about money! Don't expect any warm welcome for the poor ones...we just had Brexit and we must make a success of it...

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Re:UK opens door to citizenship for 300k HK residents by BasedCode on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:59AM (#23388411)

Isn't it just the 300k holders of British overseas passports?

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Re:UK opens door to citizenship for 300k HK residents by thefounder on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:12AM (#23388485)

You are right! It's actually more useless than I thought

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52844353

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