Officially-sponsored racism in Hong Kong has taken another leap forward this month with the announcement that the government is considering abolishing visa-free access for visitors from India and Indonesia. Ethnic cleansing aims to reduce the attractions of the city to Asians not carrying the superior Han genes.
The visa news coincided with a visit to India by Chief Executive C.Y.Leung in company with a group of businessmen supposedly to foster links with the largest nation on the One Belt One Road route. Leung, not known for his interest in any Asian country other than his own, has been parroting Beijing’s OBOR mantra, mentioning it four times in a recent policy speech .But he seemed not to care that though he was accorded a meeting with Prime Minister Modi, Indians aware of Hong Kong’s latest announcement felt deeply insulted.The general Hong Kong disdain for India,in sharp contrast to Singapore’s efforts to build ties, was reflected by the South China Morning Post, which consigned the Leung-Modi meeting to an inside page of its City section.
Actual policies stand in sharp contrast to the fostering of ties which OBOR is supposed to promote. The threat to end visa-free access to the two largest brown-skin Asian nations is on the grounds that this is a route for asylum seekers. The lie is obvious: almost all the asylum seekers come from countries which do not have visa-free access – Pakistan, Bangladesh, and a slew of countries in the Middle East and Africa. An Asia Sentinel request to the Immigration Department for numbers of Indonesian asylum-seekers has been met with silence. It is believed that the few are mainly former domestic helpers who have had their contracts terminated by Hong Kong employers and used the asylum route in a desperate attempt not to be deported. Full story...
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The visa news coincided with a visit to India by Chief Executive C.Y.Leung in company with a group of businessmen supposedly to foster links with the largest nation on the One Belt One Road route. Leung, not known for his interest in any Asian country other than his own, has been parroting Beijing’s OBOR mantra, mentioning it four times in a recent policy speech .But he seemed not to care that though he was accorded a meeting with Prime Minister Modi, Indians aware of Hong Kong’s latest announcement felt deeply insulted.The general Hong Kong disdain for India,in sharp contrast to Singapore’s efforts to build ties, was reflected by the South China Morning Post, which consigned the Leung-Modi meeting to an inside page of its City section.
Actual policies stand in sharp contrast to the fostering of ties which OBOR is supposed to promote. The threat to end visa-free access to the two largest brown-skin Asian nations is on the grounds that this is a route for asylum seekers. The lie is obvious: almost all the asylum seekers come from countries which do not have visa-free access – Pakistan, Bangladesh, and a slew of countries in the Middle East and Africa. An Asia Sentinel request to the Immigration Department for numbers of Indonesian asylum-seekers has been met with silence. It is believed that the few are mainly former domestic helpers who have had their contracts terminated by Hong Kong employers and used the asylum route in a desperate attempt not to be deported. Full story...
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