Boris Johnson on the Hong Kong crisis: We will meet our obligations, not walk away

[PeteS in CA]

https://archive.is/W6RGO#selection-565.0-565.82

Boris Johnson on the Hong Kong crisis: We will meet our obligations, not walk away

Yet last month, the National People’s Congress in Beijing decided to impose a national security law on Hong Kong that would curtail its freedoms and dramatically erode its autonomy. If China proceeds, this would be in direct conflict with its obligations under the joint declaration, a legally binding treaty registered with the United Nations.

Britain would then have no choice but to uphold our profound ties of history and friendship with the people of Hong Kong.

Today, about 350,000 of the territory’s people hold British National (Overseas) passports and another 2.5 million would be eligible to apply for them. At present, these passports allow visa-free access to the United Kingdom for up to six months.

If China imposes its national security law, the British government will change our immigration rules and allow any holder of these passports from Hong Kong to come to the UK for a renewable period of 12 months and be given further immigration rights, including the right to work, which could place them on a route to citizenship.

The brain- and wealth-drain that might ensue is beyond my imagining, potentially a China-Shattering Kaboom!

[LadyLiberty]

Can you imagine what that would do for the UK economy if Hong Kong businesses moved en masse to the UK? (rhetorical question)

[Fishrrman]

I reckon the Brits -- even the so-called "conservative" ones -- haven't yet had enough of diluting their country by importing thousands... millions... of foreigners.

They will never learn.
And they will deserve what they eventually get.

(sigh)
As will we...