Re:China has passed a national security law for Hong Kong
by mnm1 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @02:43AM
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They're asking for war, for the UK or US to engage China. That is too much to ask. Neither the UK or US has the will or the ability to wage such a war. China wants Hong Kong to be part of it and it will get it just like Russia got Crimea. There are no repercussions to China passing laws and doing as they see fit. They could full out abolish the entire agreement and bring HK under Chinese rule like the mainland if they wanted to. The only way to stop such aggression is war. And that is especially not going to happen as both the UK and US are struggling to get a handle on corona. Agreements and contracts don't mean shit if they can't be enforced and there are no consequences to breaking them. Whatever agreements China and the UK had before don't mean shit anymore because of exactly that.
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Re:China has passed a national security law for Hong Kong
by spacehunt on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @08:55AM
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> They're asking for war
This is a gross misinterpretation. What the protestors actually wanted was:
- For the UK to grant BN(O) holders citizenship to show that they are no longer bound by the Sino-UK Joint Declaration.
- For the US to revoke Hong Kong's special status (the Hong Kong Policy Act).
Re:China has passed a national security law for Hong Kong
by arcticbull on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @04:32PM
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> For the UK to grant BN(O) holders citizenship to show that they are no longer bound by the Sino-UK Joint Declaration.
BN(O)s are already British Nationals (hence the 'BN'), what they're missing is Right of Abode in the UK.