British foreign secretaries coming in from all parties across the floor have gathered in unison to make a stand for the British position to the people of Hong Kong, in a streamlined effort to deter the Chinese effort to suppress Hong Kong in a newly instate security law that will undermine Hong Kong’s previously guaranteed autonomy through the 1997 Sino-British Hong Kong Accession Treaty.
This combination of former cabinet members from Conservative and Labour Party shows the gravity in which the inciting protests are being implied to the British diplomatic society. The seven, including former Conservative foreign secretaries William Hague, Malcolm Rifkind and Jeremy Hunt, want the UK to set up an international contact group similar to the one established during the Balkans crisis in the 1990s.
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In a letter to the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, they wrote: “When it comes to Hong Kong’s autonomy under the ‘one country, two systems’ model, many of our international partners continue to take their cue from the British government.point 331 |
I’m sure you would agree, as a co-signatory of the Sino-British joint declaration the UK must be seen to be leading and coordinating the international response to this crisis and ensuring the integrity of the treaty lodged at the United Nations in 1985 and one country, two systems.point 237 |
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Trump has formally proposed a summit in China on September, bring in a G7+a commission, bringing in about Australia, Korea, Russia and India. But the EU and the US have been in stricken condition when it came to overall relations regarding China, and the foreign secretaries fear Trump’s political schemes will ruin Hong Kong as a free territory for the future implications as well.
The seven foreign secretaries, including Labour’s David Miliband, Margaret Beckett, Jack Straw and the former Labour peer David Owen, say the UK continues to have a moral and legal obligation to the people of Hong Kong, despite claims by the Chinese foreign ministry to the contrary.point 346 |
Raab has so far coordinated his global response to China’s actions with Canada, Australia and the US, and a joint US-UK effort to raise the issue at a virtual meeting of the UN security council was blocked by China on the grounds that it represented interference with its internal affairs.point 242 | 1
Raab has also promised that he will offer a pathway to citizenships to those holding, or eligible for, a British national overseas passport in Hong Kong, an offer that could mean millions of Hong Kong citizens are eligible.point 297 |
Raab told the BBC on Sunday that he did not expect tens of thousands to take up the offer since many in the city may not wish to leave or would go to other countries in the region.point 143 | 1
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