We don't have settlement rights in the UK, only eligible for BNO. That said the Brits had a scheme to grant full British Citizenship for 50,000 Hong Kong families under the recommendation of the Hong Kong Governor back in 1990. Since both my parents completed university studies in the UK and worked in favorable industries, they were granted British Citizenship. That's how I subsequently inherited British Citizenship alongside my status as a Hong Kong Permanent Resident when I was born. The scheme really was a way to "steal" investment from the "upperclassmen of Hong Kong", which is very much like what Foreign Minister Dominic Raab is proposing right now in response to the National Security Law and a need to pump in money into the British economy after Brexit. Anyways many of these families used the scheme to immigrate before the Handover, but funny enough a lot of these families find themselves back in Hong Kong now (at least that's been the case of most of our "upperclass" family friends).
As a pilot, I thought it best to show you how far China has come in the world of aviation. This is Bejing's second and newest airport that just opened this year, Daxing Airport features four runways and is one of the largest single terminal airports in the world. Funny enough the airline that just made me redundant (a certain airline that flies the British Flag) was going to be the first foreign carrier into Daxing prior to the pandemic.
If you went north of Hong Kong up the Pearl River Delta, you'll find Shenzhen. The PRC established it as one of its first Special Economic Zones. They say a picture is worth a million words, and I'll just post this instead:
Shenzhen is the Silicon Valley of China, it is home to tech firms, and is quickly becoming a Fin-tech hub. All I have to say is that the west's understanding of China is quickly becoming outdated. Back in Hong Kong people are saying we've truly returned to China, and I for one am excited for what the PRC has planned for the city with the shackles of the west finally being removed. With trade wars and tech embargos kicking off, I can totally see how the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is leveraged to compete on an even larger scale. Might be wishful thinking, but I could picture corporations delisting off the NYSE or NASDAQ and getting behind the HKSE.
As a pilot, innuendo forms the foundation and backbone of my humor. That said I have to be SOOOOOO careful now of what I say without offending snowflakes and #metoo-rainbow-unicorn liberals alike... So is my speech all that free???