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Smart approach would be offering blanket asylum status to Honk Kong residents. The US could certainly use seven million educated, hardworking people.
by Causality1 7y ago
Smart approach would be offering blanket asylum status to Honk Kong residents. The US could certainly use seven million educated, hardworking people.
- headsoup 7y agoYeah but they also like democracy and I don't think that's in the current US administration's interests...
- remarkEon 7y agoThis would absolutely risk an actual shooting war, so no it is not a "smart approach". I get it that people are mad that democracy is under attack in Hong Kong, but this drift into considering extreme reactions is getting ridiculous.
- barry-cotter 7y agoHong Kong is not now and has never been a democracy. The PRC government informer the British they’d invade if they instituted democracy and they haven’t gotten any friendlier to the idea since.
- remarkEon 7y agoI'm aware. I said that somewhat tongue-in-cheek, because "defending democracy" is a favorite method of building up a case for military intervention.
- idlewords 7y agoBRING THE DIM SUM
- r00fus 7y agoI would be surprised if US under Trump administration would even consider doing that.
- alasdair_ 7y agoThe US is currently in the middle of a crackdown on asylum seekers in general.
- barry-cotter 7y agoAbout 3.4m Hong Kong people have British National (Overseas) status and can immigrate to the U.K. tomorrow should they wish to do so. I imagine a substantial number of those not entitled to BNO are children of those who are and would be able to migrate with their family if their entire family leaves. All the Chinese who moved to Hong Kong after the handover are screwed however. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_(Overseas) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_(Overseas) > Applicants were required to be British Dependent Territories citizens by a connection with Hong Kong.[30] While about 3.4 million people acquired the status,[41] 2.5 million non-BDTC residents (virtually all Chinese nationals) were ineligible.[42] Those ineligible who wished to register as BN(O)s were required to have been naturalised as Hong Kong-connected BDTCs by 31 March 1996. Acquiring Hong Kong BDTC status other than by birth was no longer possible after that date.[37]
- vmlinuz 7y ago> About 3.4m Hong Kong people have British National (Overseas) status and can immigrate to the U.K. tomorrow should they wish to do so. No, they can't. BN(O) was created pretty much exactly for the purpose of allowing British Hong Kong citizens to retain their British passports without any sort of right of residency in the UK. The UK didn't want millions of foreign refugees with a claim to residency to appear on their doorstep any more than any other country would (have?)... https://www.gov.uk/types-of-british-nationality/british-national-overseas https://www.gov.uk/types-of-british-nationality/british-nati... "you: are subject to immigration controls and do not have the automatic right to live or work in the UK"
- barry-cotter 7y agoYou’re right.