Johnny Patterson

Will Boris Johnson stand with Hong Kong?

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Hong Kong, ‘Asia’s World City’, is becoming a place where legislators fear that they could face years in prison for talking to politicians from other countries, including British MPs.

So many of us have fond memories of Hong Kong. Dynamic and vibrant, the city is a melting pot of different cultures, which represents the meeting point of East and West. Yet in recent days, the mood in Hong Kong has soured. Moral, courageous people now face the choice of standing up and risking arrest; or staying quiet and giving up on their way of life as they know it. For many Hong Kongers who are descendants of refugees from the worst of Mao’s purges, this looks like a devastating repetition of history

Britain is a co-signatory to the Sino-British Joint Declaration, a treaty lodged at the UN which guarantees Hong Kong’s freedoms and way of life for fifty years.

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