Australia's response to Hong Kong mixes compassion and self-interest

Australia’s decision to extend the visas of thousands of Hong Kong residents now in Australia

Our diplomatic interest in Hong Kong has only grown in the past year as tensions between Australia and Beijing have risen. The vibrant pro-democracy movement to defend Hong Kong’s status as an autonomous territory has become a beacon of resistance to the creeping authoritarianism of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Yet the dilemma for Australia is to calibrate a response that sends the strongest signal to Beijing while serving the cause of democracy in Hong Kong and our own interests. Australia seems to have struck the right balance. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade was also within its rights to issue a travel warning for Australians to reconsider travel to Hong Kong in light of the risk of arbitrary arrest.

Thank you to the Australian government for being firmly on the side of democracy and freedom and providing protection for Hong Kong people🙏 Hope that the people of Hong Kong can bring greater impetus to Australia💪

Freedom and human rights in Hong Kong is deteriorating rapidly. StandWithHongKong

Thank you Australia 🇦🇺

Thank you Australia for StandWithHongKong ! Never easy to fight against CCPChina but we all must connect together and do it! BoycottChina AntiChinazi

Thank you Australia for StandUp4HumanRights & StandwithHongKong

Morrison governement not care for Australian future in canceling extradition threaty with Hong Kong mixing politics against China, has given green light to flood Australia with HK legals/iligals and bring millions of criminals, triad gangs, iligal drugs manufactures to Australia.

Check this, Australian new ASIO laws as proposed to Parlament are insult to democracy and 100 times worse than New Hong Kong law proposed by China. Every freedom loving Australian need to opose to law that is not human remove all liberty and close to George Orvell book 1984

Thank you so much for suppporting HK. We will fight to the end.

NO FREE LUNCH We'd have 15% jobless n our manuf had been decimated so we can not take in indiscriminate number Years ago Vietnamese went to be workers in garment n factories Now we have no more such jobs Time has moved ON

British colonial rule never looked so good since China communists over run HK.

Flee persecution in Hong Kong = good. Flee persecution anywhere else = bad.

Thank you Australia. Defending freedom and humanrights in Hong Kong is defending the core value of the free world. Don’t let the tyranny grow! Please StandWithHongKong and SanctionChina, MagnitskyActNow!

Great move. HongKong is totally off and become the NewWestBerlin after the NationalSecurityLaw.. The CCP destroyed the SINO-BRITISH JOINT DECLARATION already. OneCountryTwoSystemIsDead. HongKongers, even all in HK will be no more freedom and democracy. StandWithHongKong

Fuck china. HongKong HongKongProtests StandwithHongKong china PoliceBrutality

Thank you for StandWithHongKong

Thank you, Australia Just friendly remind: Kevin Yeung, Secretary for Education of Hong Kong China, has 2 children study in your country. So yes, the scheme is covering them.

6. Yes, it s true. If you are white, your fart smells better to them... It s just the way it is. Not white people s fault but HK protesters have no respect for their own people but would smell the fart of white men and say it smells good.

Thank you, from hongkong

4. In view of this very generous gesture, I would like thank the Aussie government for inviting the HK rioters to your country. 5. They won't dare to riot at your place as your police are more brutal and in any case racism in Australia would just silence them.

3. I guess many Aussies don't know this because western media has been very biased but those HK people that the Aust govt who are provide a safe passageway for are HK protesters who burnt and beat up others who speak up against them.

2. If they were truly humanitarian they would not have detained and tortured refugees for years in Nauru and they would have invited the Rohingyas who are more deserving to have resident status in Australia than rich, bad kids HKers.

1. If Australia were to take in HKers without any political intentions, I would think they are very generous or they think HK people are very rich.

Thank you Australia for StandWithHongKong and pathed a road of freedom to HongKongers

It’s time for AU to kick Secretary of Education Kevin Yeung’s children back to HK. Yeung suggested HK kids to be patriotic towards China, his children should come back but not staying in Australia.

Thanks for support 💪 StandWithHongKong SOS HKers We lose any freedom already 😭 In future CCP want arrest all human voice until not have any human voice 😠

Tks AU to support HK ppl fight for freedom & democracy. CCP steps up oppression & interferes judicial Independence. Police brutality is still unaccountable. Pls sanction CCP. Pls offer protection especially to persecuted ppl & students in this movement.

it will be interesting to see how many stay as China has a history of playing dirty and all would have family and friends who will be threatened.

need to have a strict vetting process though.

Of Hong Kong's 7.5mio, how many support the protesters?

Why can't they go to Taiwan that has the same culture.?

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