I mean if I were the Chinese foreign ministry I’d just be like “Will it make you feel better if we call them Irish” More seriously the CCP is just overly sensitive to this sort of thing, they can’t let anything go.
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I'd bet on them not letting it slide + the deputy director of the foreign ministry shitposting something about kids working in coal mines in 1780s England
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The departing Hong Kongers are going to be very visible, in a way that hits more at home with Westerners than other refugee crisis. The last half decade has primed us for that one. It's a big ask for China's PR to spin a positive on a mass exodus from a stable country.
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