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Re:Britain to give millions of HKers a path to citizenship by chrisco255 on Saturday July 11, 2020 @09:25PM (#23807835)
If you mean our military bases in Japan and South Korea, who have no great trust of China, I'm not sure why China's opinion would be relevant there. If it's not controversial for Britain to offer them citizenship then it shouldn't be for US either. Even if it is...you gotta stand up to communism.
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Re:Britain to give millions of HKers a path to citizenship by tialaramex on Saturday July 11, 2020 @09:37PM (#23807910)
> If it's not controversial for Britain to offer them citizenship then it shouldn't be for US either

China objects strongly. It says these are Chinese citizens and Britain ceased to have any claim over the territory decades ago.

Of course since Britain's offer exists only on paper (there is no mechanism proposed by which a typical person in Hong Kong should actually make use of the offer to leave) the Chinese objection likewise extends only to paper.

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Re:Britain to give millions of HKers a path to citizenship by mr_toad on Saturday July 11, 2020 @09:57PM (#23808028)
Unless China proposes to keep its own citizens prisoners there’s not much it can do to stop them taking up the offer.
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Re:Britain to give millions of HKers a path to citizenship by gliese1337 on Saturday July 11, 2020 @11:05PM (#23808450)
Which it has been known to do....
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