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Hong Kong is only part of China in the same sense Puerto Rico is part of the United States. If you are a citizen then you can hold a Hong Kong passport. The ma
by werrett 13y ago
Hong Kong is only part of China in the same sense Puerto Rico is part of the United States.
If you are a citizen then you can hold a Hong Kong passport. The majority of the population is either Cantonese or Han Chinese in ethnicity (Han Chinese being the largest ethnic group in Mainland China).
Hong Kong has a pretty liberal immigration policy. After 7 years continuous residence you are eligible for Permanent Resident status. Gaining temporary residence is pretty much as easy as landing a job there.
(I'm an Australian who has been living in Hong Kong for the past few years.)
- barry-cotter 13y agoThis is misleading. I can't remember if Puerto Rico still issues passports but I do know all US citizens resident in Puerto Rico are/were entitled to them, there is no separate citizenship. One can definitely be a HKSAR passport holder without being entitled to Chinese citizenship. All the people with Right of Abode in Hong Kong who it can be proven don't have Mainland (or Taiwan) ancestry who want a Chinese passport need to be naturalised as Chinese. This is really, really hard. Last I heard about 700 people with Right of Abode had done it. China (including Taiwan), Japan and Korea don't really naturalise foreigners. On a side note Cantonese people are as Han as Northwsterners. It's a strong regional identity and it could have supported a nationalism, like Ukrainian did in the Russian/Soviet context but the time is gone.