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»Once Upon a Time, Britain, China and Hong Kong Made a Deal. Why are they Now at a Crossroads?
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Once Upon a Time, Britain, China and Hong Kong Made a Deal. Why are they Now at a Crossroads?
The protests which began in 2019 and are ongoing were triggered by the introduction of the Fugitive Offenders amendment bill by the Hong Kong government. (Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)
The two nations have been, for some time, exchanging barbs over pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong in 2019, and 2020. London says Beijing is trying to silence dissent in Hong Kong.
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Starting Sunday, Hong Kong residents can apply for a special visa which offers them the opportunity to become British citizens. The move by UK has come as a response to Beijing’s imposition of a national security law in the Asian financial hub last year.
This week, we saw the release of the official government “Report on the Recent Community and Political Situation in Hong Kong.” It concluded: It is the common aspiration of the Central Authorities [in Beijing], the [Hong Kong Special.
They are not looking for someone else to bring into implementation those promises. They are saying “we are the generation which has grown up after the handover in 1997.” Some of them were only a few years old, but they are looking to a future and they say, “the future belongs to us. Things have not been going very well, democracy has been put off again and again, and we are now going to fight for our future and our own way.” So, for me, it is a very exciting thing, the old generation going out and the new generation coming in with a very strong sense of a Hong Kong identity, with a sense that Hong Kong has core values, which need to be preserved so that they can have the kind of future they want in that community. And I see them in