UK overtures to China worry Hongkongers | Letter
A pragmatic China policy should not ignore the lived experience of the diaspora in Britain and beyond, says Sum KungAs a Hongkonger with a British national (overseas) – BNO – passport who is now living in Britain, I read your editorial about the UK’s evolving position on China with both personal and political weight (The Guardian view on UK-China relations: a dilemma made sharper by Brexit, 16 April). For many of us who left Hong Kong following the imposition of the national security law, the threat from the ruling regime was not abstract – it was immediate, personal and existential.Our migration was not simply a search for better opportunities but a necessary departure from a city whose freedoms were being rapidly dismantled. Continue reading...
A pragmatic China policy should not ignore the lived experience of the diaspora in Britain and beyond, says Sum Kung
As a Hongkonger with a British national (overseas) – BNO – passport who is now living in Britain, I read your editorial about the UK’s evolving position on China with both personal and political weight (The Guardian view on UK-China relations: a dilemma made sharper by Brexit, 16 April). For many of us who left Hong Kong following the imposition of the national security law, the threat from the ruling regime was not abstract – it was immediate, personal and existential.
Our migration was not simply a search for better opportunities but a necessary departure from a city whose freedoms were being rapidly dismantled. Continue reading...
