kankan326
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Why you keep saying "after ww2"? Didn't I make it clear I was talking about how UK treated you before ww2?That's where you are wrong.
After WW2, there are no different at all between Hong Kong and UK citizens, Hong Kong resident are UK citizens, and can be freely move to UK if they want. In fact, the British government encourage Hong Kong Resident along with all other Colonial subject to move to the UK to rebuild UK after WW2, that is what so called "Windrush Generation" started, although that usually related to African and West Indie people live in UK during the migration rush, That status was held until the decolonization period of 1960 when majority of UK Colony either become part of UK or goes independence.
Between 1961- 1983. Hong Kong resident enjoy the same right as any Commonwealth Citizens (not UK citizens prior to 1961) vis-à-vis in relation to the UK when the UK gave Hong Kong resident CUKC from 1961-1983 (Citizens of United Kingdoms Commonwealth), which is right to freely live an work in UK or any commonwealth country, essentially, it is the same status as any UK Citizens, Canadian Citizens, Australian Citizens with regarding the right to UK.
After 1983, a special status of British Overseas Territories Citizens was conferred to Hong Kong and take the right out of line with regards to other British Commonwealth Entity, the British Government did that to pave the way for the Sino-UK joint Declaration which basically lay the road ahead of handing Hong Kong back to China. However, even today, Hong Kong resident with British National (Overseas) status (or BNO) enjoy some degree of privilege in the UK, like a BNO holder can hold government office in UK, serve in the British Armed Forces, right to vote, right to be elected as government official and visa free travel. Essentially, a BNO holder is a British Citizens without the right of adobe.
The UK could not care less about China AT ALL between 1949 to 1983, in fact, as I said before, after WW2 and before Singapore independence, UK actually try to either absorb Hong Kong as part of UK or let it go independence. A notion no one in Hong Kong basically take seriously.
Again, I don't think you know anything about Hong Kong history or British Colonial History.
Two facts you should know.For some reason, you really like your GDP figure, as I said before, and I am saying again, it mean nothing.
The reason why Hong Kong is important to China is because the world see Hong Kong and China as two different entity, the world treat Hong Kong and China differently both politically and economically. Hong Kong is always the free port and China have today, still need that free port to boost export as most western world have a different quota on export form China, that is what Hong Kong is known as, a re-entry port. Or why do you think we have a top 10 seaport by tonnage in Hong Kong but we do not have any indigenous export item from Hong Kong?
GDP mean nothing, yes, Shenzhen is close to Hong Kong in GDP (You are actually wrong, Hong Kong GDP is still ahead in 2019 at 370 billions USD nominal while Shenzhen is only 360 billions nominal) But consider this, Shenzhen have twice the population than in Hong Kong, which mean the average earning power is not even 1/2 of what an average Hong Konger earn. In fact, beside Beijing and Shanghai, there are no county or cities in China that earn as much money as Hong Kong on average. You really think China can do without the financial achievement of Hong Kong?
LOL. do you even know if Hong Kong is no longer a declared free market, how much it would damage the financial stability in China?
1. When Trump claimed trade deficit to China, he did include HK export to US into the number(And he intentionally ignored US export to HK). Which means HK can not be an export backdoor for China anymore.
2. HK's GDP is all about finance, estate, sevice. Shenzhen's GDP is mostly about high tech industries. Sense the difference.
Xi never said that. Xi doesn't like talking much. But I personally believe he won't forgive easily. Several years ago when he visited Xinjiang, there was a terrorist attack. You know what happened later.Is it like Xi said "The protest must be stop by National Day"? 10-1 went by, nothing has stopped.
As for the limit, yes, let's find out.
Marginalizing HK's financial center needs time. Let see what would happen in the next years.