From our correspondent
BEIJING China is threatening countermeasures if the British government proceeds with its plan to facilitate the visa regime for the inhabitants of Hong Kong: the Chinese embassy in London has made it known today. But that of Boris Johnson who proclaimed the UK’s moral obligation to the municipalities of London to offer a passport of His British Majesty to three million former Hong Kong subjects it is not an isolated case. L’Australia is preparing to grant theasylum to Hong Kong residents. TO Tokyo Diet deputies yesterday opened a debate on measures to welcome “Financial talents” who wanted to leave the Chinese city. The Financial Times made a survey of the Hong Kong agencies dealing with expatriation practices: “A tsunami of requests”, already 800 in May when Beijing announced the beginning of the process for the imposition of the National security law in the autonomous territory. In May 2019, while Hong Kong was already shaken by the anti-government protest, emigration applications were only half.
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In 1989, when the Tiananmen crackdown occurred and the Thatcher government had already pledged to return the colony to the Chinese motherland, it was the wealthy who thought of running away. Now it’s the white-collar workers, the students and the professors.
There is also a project caressed by a Hong Kong organization: negotiate with theIreland to build an «international charter city» which could welcome 50 thousand emigrants.
Behind this bandaged solidarity now, they also hide high finance games: Singapore plans to take advantage the situation to attract fleeing banking institutions, Taiwan could finally make a qualitative leap, of course the same things are done in London and Tokyo.
The South China Morning Post by Jack Ma suggested that Hong Kong could replace the commercial installations of its large port with more agile structures dedicated to yachts. A new Monaco overlooking the South China Sea. An idea that could also appeal to the Party-State which in Deng’s time already said: “Enrichment is glorious”. Just don’t disturb the political maneuverer. And, after all, Beijing could have interest in emptying Hong Kong of a few hundred thousand subversives and foreigners. It would not be difficult to replace them with good nationalist Chinese and loyal to state capitalism.
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July 2, 2020 (change July 2, 2020 | 09:45)
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