Posted on 06/29/2020 8:04:35 PM PDT by Jane Long
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China’s parliament passed national security legislation for Hong Kong on Tuesday, setting the stage for the most radical changes to the former British colony’s way of life since it returned to Chinese rule almost exactly 23 years ago.
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The legislation pushes Beijing further along a collision course with the United States, Britain and other Western governments, which have said it erodes the high degree of autonomy the global financial hub was granted at its July 1, 1997 handover.
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HSBC was already threatened that they need to support the new security law or else. Threats included basically being shut down in China where they do most of their business. So, they issued a statement supporting it.
BOYCOTT CHINA!!!
“I’m surprised it took the ChiComs this long to break their contract.”
That’s key.
Treaty broken. Hong Kong is therefore independent.
And why should they think otherwise? The ChiComs have the best Congress money can buy ...
Yes and no, Mr. Johnson will permit British Nationals (Overseas) to move to the UK. These are Hong Kong residents who were Hong Kong citizens before 1997 and meet certain eligibility and legal requirements. About 3 million people.
Of these people, about 350,000 already have British National Overseas) Passports.
China considers these people as Chinese Citizens, so the question is how many will the Red Chinese permit to leave?
They have broken the agreement signed w Britain that governs the future of Hong Kong.
Britain should have held onto Hong Kong.
Very stupid ideology bears very stupid fruits.
I am guessing that sanctions are coming soon, to hit China’s financing from the USA.
From PresentDangerChina.org, June 28, 2020:
Dear Mr. President:
To your credit, you have made clear that the United States stands with the people of Hong Kong. That has never been more important than today when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is in the final stages of what you described as its “smothering of freedom” there. Fortunately, there is something you can do to demonstrate tangibly our
solidarity with Hong Kongers – and freedom-loving people everywhere – and our determination to oppose the CCP that threatens them all.
We learned this week from the Department of Defense that among the foreign companies doing business in this country are over twenty tied to the institution the CCP uses to ensure its totalitarian control of the Chinese population and to advance its efforts to dominate the rest of the world: the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Under Beijing’s
intelligence statutes, all PRC companies and nationals are required to conduct espionage, steal intellectual property and technology and otherwise engage in subversion of the
motherland’s enemies, including especially the United States, if ordered to do so by their government. Of course, since such activities are part of the mission of the PLA, it must be assumed they are a routine feature of companies it operates here.
In recognition of this reality, a federal statute (P.L. 105-261, Sec. 1237), was enacted in 1999 with the intention of preventing “Communist Chinese military companies” from doing business in this country. But it was not until your Pentagon provided the first-ever (albeit partial) accounting required by that law – thereby documenting the presence in the United States of mainstays of a hostile power’s military-industrial complex – that the compelling case for ending that presence has become public.
Consequently, we call on you to act immediately – i.e., before July 1st when the CCP is expected formally to enact the national security law that will be used to finish off the last of Hong Kong’s liberties – to fulfill the other part of P.L. 105-261. It explicitly authorizes you to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to penalize such PLA-tied corporations and do so without having to declare a national emergency. They should be barred from doing business directly or indirectly in the United States and from raising funds or trading in U.S. capital markets.
The people of Hong Kong would regard the real and punitive impact of such a step on their Chinese Communist Party oppressors as tangible proof of America’s commitment to their freedom. And by taking that step, you would make a significant contribution towards safeguarding our own people and their nation from the damage done by PLA companies inside this country.
Thanks for info
> “China considers these people as Chinese Citizens, so the question is how many will the Red Chinese permit to leave?”
It is no secret that with respect to Hong Kong, China only wants to keep the island, not the people. To the CCP, those rebellious people are nothing but trouble.
That explains why quite a few people were able to flee to other countries like Taiwan when out on bail on various charges such as unlawful gathering and obstructing police.
By the way, even mainland Chinese are not being treated as citizens as we normally understood the term. The latest example is, through stringent quarantine requirements and greatly reduced commercial flights, the CCP has effectively barred overseas Chinese and students from going back to China for fear they might spread the virus.
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