Chas, you obviously have a low reading comprehension level. How on earth did you get the idea that I thought Great Britain, or Britain, or the UK, or England, or The British Empire, or The Crown, or the British Government, abandoned Hong Kong? I did use the word abandoned, but you must have got yourself tangled up and mentally transferred that word and reversed the idea in another part of my post.
No wonder things seem crazy to you.
Here's the hard part: <It's one of life's oddities that Great Britain delivered freedom, prosperity, capitalism, common law, english, habeas corpus and all that good stuff to Hong Kong then abandoned them there. >
That means Great Britain abandoned those things in Hong Kong, not that they abandoned Hong Kong. Those are abstract things. Prince Charles couldn't have collected english and packed it with the flag to return it all to London. Habeas corpus can't be repossessed. Freedom is just that and you can imagine [perhaps] that repossessing freedom would be a contradiction in terms.
Great Britain gifted those things to Hong Kong without even a licence fee, royalty payment or other remuneration. TJ uses english as though he owns it. So does ElM. Strangely, they have an anti-Anglo ideology rather than worshiping the Anglosphere which gave them so much, without even asking for a thank you.
Noblesse oblige,
Mqurice
PS: What's your first language? |
