Many of the richer English-speaking Hong Kong residents send their children to school in England (or at any rate did thirty years ago). And the schools they we

Many of the richer English-speaking Hong Kong residents send their children to school in England (or at any rate did thirty years ago). And the schools they were sent to are largely the same as the schools that the people who run the UK went to (at least when there's a Conservative government). So when the cabinet visualise "someone from Hong Kong", they think "one of us".