{"id":47887,"date":"2019-08-18T09:33:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47887"},"modified":"2019-08-18T09:33:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T14:33:15","slug":"british-colonialism-laid-the-ground-for-the-crises-in-hong-kong-and-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47887","title":{"rendered":"British colonialism laid the ground for the crises in Hong Kong and Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/466639-kashmir-hong-kong-british-colonialism\/\">British colonialism laid the ground for the crises in Hong Kong and Kashmir<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni-rt.secure2.footprint.net\/files\/2019.08\/xxs\/5d56a04dfc7e93a63d8b467e.jpg\" alt=\"British colonialism laid the ground for the crises in Hong Kong and Kashmir\" width=\"579\" height=\"325\"\/><figcaption>\u00a9 REUTERS\/Thomas Peter; \u00a9 REUTERS\/Mohsin Raza\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though distance-wise Hong Kong and Kashmir may be about 4,000km (2,485 miles) apart, they have in common a history of being scarred by the crimes of British colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This history and those scars cannot be abstracted when it comes to grasping the nettle of the crises that have engulfed both places now because, without factoring this in, no serious analysis can be undertaken and no salutary lessons will be learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starting with Hong Kong, when senior Conservative Party MP and former British Army officer Tom Tugendhatrecently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/aug\/13\/uk-british-nationality-hong-kong-citizens-tom-tugendhat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suggested&nbsp;<\/a>that the people of Hong Kong should be granted UK citizenship (regardless of whether they want it or not) as a form of protection from Beijing, he provided the world with an insight into the colonial mind of the British establishment.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/466396-hong-kong-british-hypocrisy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>ALSO ON RT.COM<\/strong><strong>Hong Kong phooey! Would you like any hypocrisy with that?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In making this ludicrous suggestion, amounting to an outrageous imposition of British sovereignty over the city, Mr Tugendhat revealed that to him China should know its rightful place as a lesser power. In this he has been joined by the UK\u2019s former governor of Hong Kong, Lord Patten of Barnes (I promise you, I\u2019m not making this up), who with astonishing arrogance has called for a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/politics\/former-hk-governor-urges-pm-to-speak-up-and-defend-its-freedoms-a4212586.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;British commission of inquiry<\/a>&nbsp;to be established to look into the unrest, with particular emphasis on the actions of the Hong Kong police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Tom Tugendhat and Lore Patten could, to all intents, have been standing on the shoulders of Lord George Macartney, the man who led Britain\u2019s first ever trade delegation to China in 1792 on the orders of King George III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British colonialism laid the ground for the crises in Hong Kong and Kashmir Though distance-wise Hong Kong and Kashmir may be about 4,000km (2,485 miles) apart, they have in common a history of being scarred by the crimes of British colonialism. This history and those scars cannot be abstracted when it comes to grasping the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[93,403,18982,8114,2080],"class_list":["post-47887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-britain","tag-hong-kong","tag-kashmir","tag-rt-news","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47888,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47887\/revisions\/47888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}