Why it’s wrong to compare Hong Kong and UK on free speech and Victor Mallet visa row
He asks: “… what if an organisation of Britain-based Chinese correspondents had given a public platform to the leader of an illegal separatist party that advocates Northern Ireland’s breakaway from Britain? The Chinese correspondents … would risk being declared persona non grata by the British government. Except the situation in Greater China is 10 times more vexed than in present-day Northern Ireland.”
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Think carefully about the British-Irish issue. The Irish Republican Army was a terrorist or nationalist organisation, represented in the political field by Sinn Fein. The IRA was banned, but Sinn Fein was not.
Mr Yeung finishes by reminding us that illegal acts must have consequences, but nothing Victor Mallet did was illegal.
Paul Serfaty, Mid-Levels