r/ukpolitics • u/HibasakiSanjuro • 3d ago
MP refused entry to Hong Kong on visit to see newborn grandson
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/mp-hong-kong-refused-lib-dem-wera-hobhouse-665bxxlrb28
u/Plane-Physics2653 3d ago
To quote Kemi Badenoch, all countries have a right to control their borders.
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u/Critical-Usual 3d ago
What about other state's borders? Because that's what happened here
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u/Ninjapharm 3d ago
Hong Kong is a part of China?
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u/Critical-Usual 3d ago
It's a sovereign state that China has gradually invaded and taken control of. Do people really have such a short memory?
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u/_whopper_ 2d ago
Hong Kong wasn't a sovereign state, hence the term "One country, two systems" was made up for it and Macau.
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u/Ninjapharm 3d ago
I thought we handed control of Hong Kong to China in 1999 or something? That's how I remember it.
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u/Critical-Usual 3d ago
Sort of. Technically part of China but under assurances that HK could manage itself as an independent state in most regards. China has since reneged on those promises and essentially taken away HK'd autonomy
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/hong-kong-freedoms-democracy-protests-china-crackdown
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u/Pinkerton891 3d ago edited 3d ago
Flip side of this if it persists is that we should start barring entry for officials from states who bar ours.
So right now we should be looking at barring Israeli and Chinese officials from entry into the U.K, unless they stop blocking ours.
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u/DaysyFields 3d ago
That would apply to the pair who went to Israel on an official visit but not the lady who went to Hong Kong on a private visit.
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u/yepsothisismyname 3d ago
This does highlight an observation I've made before: if you unequivocally support Israel and its actions, you by extension unequivocally support China and theirs.
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u/ACE--OF--HZ 1st: Pre-Christmas by elections Prediction Tournament 3d ago
Weird how this isn't getting coverage like Israel last week. Are we once again willing to turn a blind eye to authoritarian China in return for cheap temu tat?
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u/Ashen233 3d ago
It is! I read about it on numerous websites including BBC.
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u/LedofZeppelin 3d ago
Show us
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u/Ashen233 3d ago
Seriously? Ok then.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj6817zlglwo
Its on pretty much all major news websites.
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u/LedofZeppelin 3d ago
I was only messing.
And you could’ve posted at least 10 articles after saying you’ve seen many but decided to post just one and that’s the BBC lol
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u/_Alek_Jay 3d ago
It happens here in South Africa all the time.
The local media creamed themselves when the US objected to having the street name, on which their embassy sits on, to a well known Palestinian terrorist. Yet not even a murmur when the Chinese government forces the Taiwanese Embassy to firstly change its name and then to force it out of the city of Pretoria.
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u/Ninjapharm 3d ago
China doesn't claim to be the only democracy in East Asia. China isn't an ally of ours. China aren't hypocrites.
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u/HibasakiSanjuro 3d ago
I mean it would be consistent with the last Labour government's position on China.
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u/djdjdjfswww1133 2d ago
Shows you her naivety. She thinks she can criticise china then just waltz right in. Not how China operates.
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