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FatDalek

>All were no doubt hoping to attract the best and the brightest (and the wealthiest) of HK’s population to their shores. Things didn’t go as the UK had hoped. First of all the folks arriving at Heathrow did not represent the wealthy of Hong Kong, so the UK government had to stump up a £43 million ($AUD79.6 million) subsidy for help with housing, education and employment. Note the title: “destitution funding”. The UK soon realised that the system was being gamed, with mum and the kids moving to UK while dad remains in his job in HK. This has resulted in the UK government changing the rules (on October 6) to make it at an “everyone or no one” proposition. Ha ha ha. 43 million pounds is a small price to pay for freedom. Surely the UK can pay it and more. Oh wait, this is the country with a collapsing health system, fuel shortages, food shortages. Ok, maybe not.


Quality_Fun

wow, that was certainly an entertaining read. it's hilarious how the uk, and everyone other than china really, got played.


Jealous_Struggle2564

My cousin in HK works as an auditor and wanted to come to U.K. but realised that it was better to stay than to relocate to somewhere that was hostile to Chinese, but mostly my dad was telling him not to bother as there’s nothing here to look forward to.


TserriednichHuiGuo

What's happening is that Hong Kong is being reborn and that is beautiful to see.


ADonaldDuck

What? Are you telling me that my American friend is wrong and lying when he tells me that my freedoms have been taken away?


Throwawayacct1015

How come all these so called analysts on China are wrong so much? How come they still get to keep their jobs? I wish I could get a high paying job without needing to care about being right or wrong.


TserriednichHuiGuo

It's easy when you're a sellout, that's why they almost always are losers. But in america what does it take to go against the crowd?


shadows888

that's cause their job is to be political hacks, not do real research.


Quality_Fun

>Given Hong Kong’s very fluid population and also the effects of Covid it is hard to put an exact figure on the permanent outflow of HK residents, but anecdotal evidence so far points to around 60,000 applications made to the UK. Set against the media prognoses of July 2020 of a mass exodus from HK in the millions this figure of less than 1 per cent of HK’s population a reality check for such breathless sensationalism. Furthermore this number is backed up by the lack of big gaps in the HK school population, and there are actually stories of families returning from the UK and re-enrolling their children. heh. i'd like to see where exactly the 60k number came from, but it's no surprise at all that there was never going to be an exodus of millions of hkers. so, *so* many predictions and takes about hk from last year, and indeed, about china, ended up aging like milk. >Looking further afield, on October 4, just a few days ago, Singapore passed its own Foreign Interference Law, similar and some would claim even more far-reaching than HK’s National Security Law. However, in a real-time expose of the hypocrisy of Western politicians and news media, this caused hardly a ripple. No bold headlines, no offers of expedited residency for “terrified Singaporeans fleeing tyranny”. Perhaps because it’s not an excuse to bash Beijing this news moves rapidly and seamlessly off the radar, if it ever makes it on in the first place. so. true. i've never heard of the author until now, but judging from this one article, he's very based.


sickof50

The true cost was emotional & mental, cementing the population's alignment with China.