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Yeah, unless UK would be willing to play nuclear chicken against the CCP, in hindsight good luck with UK's choice of leaders, completely indefensible. Unlike Taiwan, China can just drive their metric crapload of divisions there, and there's no way anyone could match that in conventional warfare...

"Right thing to do" may be the golden standard to run national policy in inspirational movie scripts, but it leads to nasty problems in the real world though. In real world, this sort of idealism turns you into what effectively could be called the emergency valve system for third world...

Yup. Fang Fang is the new and famous case.

But this isn't the past, this is now. With a little bit of creativity you may end up with a quarter of South America, Africa and Asia on your doorstep this way, and among them there are some governments that in fact would not mind masses of dissidents removing themselves out of the picture of...

UK just did, and they kinda have better reasoning for that due to the history involved, i'd even go as far as saying that they have a better one than anyone else, and also with already existing groundwork for it that will limit abuses and not have some of the issues of ordinary refugee status...