Hong Kong
Unfortunately, China’s leaders will do what they want to do, even in the face of U.S. sanctions and worldwide condemnation over the spilling of innocent blood in Beijing.
However, the free world can do something about those Chinese who are not yet under the tyranny of communism. Certainly, Britain and the Commonwealth countries have a moral duty to offer Hong Kong Chinese the opportunity to emigrate before China’s takeover in 1997. Moreover, the United States and all other democratic nations ought to open their doors as well. After all, the 3.2 million Chinese still in Hong Kong have worked hard to attain economic miracles in a refuge of freedom. They deserve better than to be abandoned to the lies and brutality of the Chinese government.
Under such an arrangement, China may take Hong Kong, but it will just be a ghost town and an economic wasteland.
PHYLLIS W. CHENG
Los Angeles
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