[tialaramex]

> If it's not controversial for Britain to offer them citizenship then it shouldn't be for US either

China objects strongly. It says these are Chinese citizens and Britain ceased to have any claim over the territory decades ago.

Of course since Britain's offer exists only on paper (there is no mechanism proposed by which a typical person in Hong Kong should actually make use of the offer to leave) the Chinese objection likewise extends only to paper.

[mr_toad]

Unless China proposes to keep its own citizens prisoners there’s not much it can do to stop them taking up the offer.

[gliese1337]

Which it has been known to do....