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As a European citizen I would really like to provide the people of Hong Kong a passport of their choosing. Our Western colonial mistakes are responsible for set
by lowdose 7y ago
As a European citizen I would really like to provide the people of Hong Kong a passport of their choosing. Our Western colonial mistakes are responsible for setting up China with this situation in HK. The best is to acknowledge our mistakes and welcome anybody that feels compromised by a Chinese annexation.
In the past the Netherlands has made a promise to the people of South Maluku a republic and independent status from Indonesia in a similar situation which in the end could not be upheld. This enfolded in to a very traumatic event where people out of desperation high jacked a train in the Netherlands to come to a solution. Some of these people where killed.
China has a righteous claim on HK and the West should not be in denial of the inevitable. Giving China the chance of restoring their geographical region while facilitating a frictionless migration for those in need would prevent in worse case scenario a war.
Asian people assimilate very well in Western societies and we can always use more people with an average IQ of 108.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_South_Maluku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_South_Maluku
- YinglingLight 7y agoHow very logical and submissive.
- cbnotfromthere 7y ago_"As a European citizen I would really like to provide the people of Hong Kong a passport of their choosing. Our Western colonial mistakes"_ As an European Union citizen, I find it VERY insulting that anyone can equate Western (former) colonialists with the European Union and viceversa. I'm from Eastern Europe, I have zero connection to former colonialism and zero guilt about that.
- tatersolid 7y ago> China has a righteous claim on HK Why exactly? Modern China itself was formed from wars of imperial conquest. That these conquests by force happened long ago doesn't make them any “more righteous” than the British conquest of HK over 100 years ago. By your logic, Germany had a “righteous claim” on Austria, Hungary, and at least parts of Poland in the late 1930s.