Start restricting how much money folks in HK can take when they leave?
Hong-Kong Protests
- Thread starter Pika
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Nah, just leave
"Foreign buyers are driving up real estate!" is the number 1 racist trope in Canada (IMO).
#1 target is Chinese, #2 are Middle Easterners (Arabs and Persians).
Most Chinese people were complaining this was racist tail wagging, but still the politicians and media still tried to push this narrative. Real Estate associations tried to persuade otherwise, but they were dismissed as having a hand in the pot (which is somewhat true to be fair).
Now in light of the pandemic, immigration has dropped, international student enrollment has dropped, travel outside China has dropped. Average detached home prices in Toronto... surprise, record highs!
Obviously with an influx of investors, the demand will rise and prices will as well. However, people in Toronto just have unrealistic expectations. It's really just comes down to simple mathematics. Population has grown, city can't grow physically, also less supply of detached homes as they get torn down for condos/higher density development. There's no real logic to "native" Canadians' belief that somehow people deserve to live in a nice house with a yard other than that's probably the environment they grew up in. However, almost every other big city in the world, an apartment is the norm.
The articles on the "crushing of dissent" due to this oath taking is such absolute horsecrap, that I can't believe anyone would believe what they are writing. Taking oaths to pledge loyalty to the country is basically a worldwide practice for lawyers, police, political office holders, etc.
With all the discussion going on regarding sensitivity about race, please don't tell me that these people as professional journalists/editors of large corporate newsrooms are not aware of the repercussions of what they are writing. All the attacks on elderly Asian folks, do they think it comes out of nowhere? Do they really think the whole "we are talking about the evil government, not the people!" schtick really applies? WSJ still had the gall to print that garbage from Fat idiot pompeo, even though it's widely discredited. They might as well print excerpts from "Protocols of the elders of Zion" and annotated by David Duke.
Britbongs taking another L today. Thank u England for agreeing to hold the bag for us
Did HK take them back though.
By demanding political asylum, they indirectly renounced their HK residency status. So HK does not have any obligation to take them back. No? They should have been sent to Australia.
Unless these people formally renounced their HK residency status, HK has to take them back. I am hoping China National Congress would formally interpret the dual citizenship law in HK and declared anyone holding a BNO would lose its HK residency status.
This is a general issue I still cannot wrestle with. Artists being artists. Professionals being professionals. As soon as they open their mousses on politics, they usually expose their IQ levels to their fans. Oops!