Should we get involved in the Hong Kong crisis
Well in my opinion i think we should not for many reasons. The first reason is that China has the biggest army in the world and if we fight them we could loose alot of people in our army and if we do we wont have any protection over our country.The second reason is that China is one of Briains most biggest trading points and if we help Hong Kong they would probably stop trading with us and some of the stuff the give us we need.My final reason is that We promised China that they can have Hong Komg back after 100 years and we gave it back to then.If we refused to give it back it could have caused conflict beetween us.
Comments (116)
27 Sep 2019
Hi buzzing atom! Personally, I think Britain should get involved, but not to the extent that we start a war with a country with the world's biggest army. I think this because we agreed to keep Hong Kong the way it was, and by ignoring what is going on, we are turning out back on Hong Kong, and not showing them support when they need it most. The people in Hong Kong obviously care very much about what is going on, and it would be unfair not to show them support. While you made a very good point about us working well with China on many sorts of things, maybe rather than going straight to Hong Kong, we could talk to China themselves. That is, of course, if anyone is brave enough, but I'm sure some politicians (especially if they have a connection with hong Kong themselves) will feel the need to get involved!
29 Sep 2019
Yes. We (Britain) should get involved. We should sometimes get in other country's business but not every time.
We should also be aware that they even allow us to help as well though.
There are a lot of risks to us getting involved, we have a very good relationship with China currently (trading) and we don’t want to ruin that. Not to mention China has the biggest army in the world! We do not want to get on their bad side.
Thanks for telling me passionate_dinosaur
30 Sep 2019
Yes we should because if we do we will reduce the problem into a more easier decision
At first, I would have agreed with you because at one time, Hong Kong was ruled by Britain. When we released it to China, they signed an agreement that means Hong Kong citizens have British rights until 2046. But after doing a couple of lessons on this, I have changed my mind.
I disagree with you because China is said to have the world's biggest army meaning that they could kill most of Britain. Also, us getting involved may start a war. World war 1 started because a man from one country got killed in another country. If we get involved then something like that might happen, starting world war 3 potentially scarring our future world.
In conclusion, I disagree with you because I believe it would be worse if we got involved.
thank you that just what I wrote in my first comment
Sorry, I didn't read any others
30 Sep 2019
Britain should get involved in the situation with Hong Kong. If Britain and China are working closely together and we are giving them produce, if they try anything with us then they won’t get that anymore. Also, if Britain and China are ‘friends’, and China has a policy of not interfering in other countries problems then we might be able to make a new agreement.
But I also feel Britain shouldn’t get involved as the agreement we made is broken and China could do whatever they want. Also as well as China relies on Britain, we rely on them just as much.
30 Sep 2019
Yes and no because if we help out there might be a war. So China will call their friends and Britain will call their friends and will make a world war and some counties will try and hurt Britain.Yes because we use to
own Hong Kong so apprehend.
30 Sep 2019
At first i disagreed that Britain should get involved, we might cause more of a war, but now i agree because everyone deserves freedom not slavery. Hong Kong are good people they are citizens like Britain. They have done nothing wrong China listen to people, so that's why i agree that Britain should get involved.
30 Sep 2019
I think that Britain should not get involved because china will argue with us and might start a war. This is not good for Britain because China is said to have the best army in the world.If their is a war,china's friends will help them attack us and Britain's friends will help us attack them. This could cause world war 3.If there is a war,the countries in between will get badly injured .This is unfair for them because they had nothing to do with it.
30 Sep 2019
I think we should not get involved because it will make matters worse.
30 Sep 2019
50 50 for me because we should help each other as we all live on the same plant i also think no because we should not get involed
as it is not are problem
I disagree genius_squid. It is a problem but what I do agree with is that we all live on this planet so we should help everyone else who lives on it.
30 Sep 2019
We shouldn't help Hong Kong because it has nothing to do with us. Nor China or Hong Kong have ever got into our business so why should we get into theirs.
30 Sep 2019
yes we should help Hong Kong because they look like they need a lot of help so yes we should like passionate dinosaur said
30 Sep 2019
yes because Britain is nice along with everyone in it
30 Sep 2019
Hong kong people could live somewhere else safe
But where would that place be? Also what if China reacts and stops them. They don’t have to go through this so it’s unfair if they move.
30 Sep 2019
The risk of us involving is that China could become more or less our enemies and (I don't want it to happen) they will start a little war. Though if we explain to them that we want to help,I think everything will be alright.
30 Sep 2019
My opinion is that we should not because we might start WWIII and everyone doesn't want that to happen.
Mine to I definitely don't want WWIII to happen I think everyone else do not want it to happen to.
I don't want world 🌎 war lll to happen
I think it's important to remember that in modern times, a lot of effort is made to solve problems and disagreements 'diplomatically' - which means through talking. War is rare between countries who have big armies as there is a lot of talking that can happen before it gets anywhere near that stage.
Yeah but I think It might be something like brexit and good people might step down from their jobs
01 Oct 2019
we should not get involved because we could have a war against hong kong people and that and there is loads of violence that is going on
01 Oct 2019
Most of our things are made in 🇨🇳
01 Oct 2019
I agree with you,we really should not help ,but we should help a little bit but not enough to cause conflict between us and China and maybe Hong Kong as well
01 Oct 2019
This could cause war but we can fix this war between China and Hong Kong so I think we should do something about this.
01 Oct 2019
Personally, I don’t want any kind of war, either way and in every way though, interfering is best. My first reason for that would be we used to rule Hong Kong but then we traded with China. Now China has Hong Kong and their treating Hong Kong badly, we have a right to take them back and treat them nicely. My second reason that we should interfere would be that some years into the future Hong Kong would be full of violence. None of the citizens would be safe, there could be war between them and even more so therefore I think we should interfere.
I don’t want conflict either so I am with you and the other guy: buzzing_antom
Yes
02 Oct 2019
Britain should assist Hong Kong not for fame or power but just because Hong Kong is in a time of need.In addition,they could repay the favour in the future.
i agree we should help them they help us when we need it now we can do the same.
02 Oct 2019
In my oppinion,i think Britain should and shouldn't get involved. Should because Hong Kong need the help because China has the biggest army in the world and shouldn't because it could cause a war
02 Oct 2019
I agree with your reasons, buzzing_atom. If Britain got involved, then we COULD lose a lot of people. And we do need some of the things China make for us
02 Oct 2019
buzzing_atom i really like your post. Personally on one hand i would agree with you because we could start a war between us and china and we could lose a lot of people but on the other hand we should because if we don't these protests might go on into early 2020 and issues could get a lot worse
02 Oct 2019
i think England should get involed in the Hong Kong crises because we signed the contract saying one Contry to systems so its are problem as well. i got this idea from a friend who said''after brexit is solved we can get involved because we have our own problems.
02 Oct 2019
For me, I think two reasons. Reason 1 is that we should get involved to help our other beloved country because that is what we do. Reason 2 is we shouldn't get involved because we don't want to make things worse.
I agree
thank you
02 Oct 2019
I think we should make it clear that we do not endorse China's views when it comes to human rights and potentially what our views are in a non-aggressive manner, but my fear is that we may be sticking our fingers in too many pies if we try to get involved in Hong Kong and its issues on top of our own.
02 Oct 2019
Personally, I don't think we should get involved in the Hong Kong crisis because if we get involved china might take it too far and it would get worse and Hong Kong would be a dangerous place to live like whats happening in Syria.
02 Oct 2019
The UK should definetly get involved as we used to rule hong kong so its partly our responsibility to help them and try to stop the protests. i also dont think that if we get involved it will make it worse as if we dont come charging in then china might give us time to say our opinions. we also need to get hong kong back under control as lots of harmless citizens will either have to go to another country or get killed - both of these factors mean a deacreasing population for hong kong. i know this might seem a bit over the top but what if china ends up " owning " the majority of the world then they might be too strong to attack as the already have 1.4 billion ( alot ) people which is the most in the world. also we dont want to lose being able to trade with china as we need things they have. Also,if we dont interfere in this problem then alot of the things that we have we will lose because lots of our resources are made in china.This might seem selfish but we also dont want to lose our power over alot of the world as china could steal them and settle there.
i also think the citizens of hong kong should get to choose as they might feel there being bossed around by us and china. This could be solved with an election where the people get to decide whether they want to be a free country and have democracy rather than chinas idea of comunism which they might not like. Doing this will ensure that citizens get what they want and they feel free. They need to feel the sense of freedom.
succinct_leaves
I agree. It is our responsibility. And even if it isn't, we used to rule them, so we should be able to set them free.
i agree
03 Oct 2019
Yes we should help Hong Kong
to make their life better,no because we don't want to start a war or any bad situations between Hong Kong China and England.
Who started this and why is it happening?
03 Oct 2019
we should intervene because we ruled hong kong for 150 years🤦♂️ and the people are no different to us
03 Oct 2019
PLS HELP
03 Oct 2019
WE DONT WANT A WULED WAR 3
03 Oct 2019
we should becous this is are world to
03 Oct 2019
we ruled them for 150 years if we dont help were teribble beings
03 Oct 2019
no because we will have a world 3 😥😲😰
we would have a world war 3
03 Oct 2019
I think we should interfere because even though Hong Kong might feel angry or they want to be an independent country, we should at least be able to set them free or get them to safety; away from China. I think this is best because China is using violence, then Hong Kongers are using violence back. So were nobody is using violence, nobody would have to use violence back. I understand that Hong Kongers are trying to defend themselves, but violence is never the way kindness is.
To be honest, we should interfere because that is best. Being no help at all is worse. Even though it might start a 'World war III' like a few people are saying, It's not fair on Hong Kongers. So in my opinion not Britain or China should rule Hong Kong; they should be an independent country.
03 Oct 2019
No because if we do it could get us involved and we could be part of it. But also yes because we don't want to leave China to rule over Hong Kong.
03 Oct 2019
YES gregarious moon I totally agree with you.
03 Oct 2019
Personally I think we should help but at the same time we shouldn't because China has the biggest and most powerful army in the world. This may even cause world war 3 and cause a giant conflict and political problems. China could even take over Hong Kong this could lead to killings and attacks this could also lead to a major decrease of population. Also, many products get shipped from China. We could lose the trading system and everything could go wrong. If China continues for a few more months or so we probably should take action before something terrible happens.
I agree with this Hong Kong could just die out.
04 Oct 2019
i think we should not go in because we should not get involved because it is not are bisness
04 Oct 2019
I think we should go in and help the country or they are done for
04 Oct 2019
yes we should help because we need helpful for our world
04 Oct 2019
we need to help people in need
04 Oct 2019
no because they have not done en-thing wrong and if they have just that them dell with it
04 Oct 2019
yes i agry
04 Oct 2019
I don't know if we should involve or not because if we did we may make things worse then Hong Kong or China may send a army over to our country and take over! But I also think we should get involve because if you think about it What if we were being told that we couldn't be our own country? Then we would want some other country to help us turn back into our own again
I agree! The fact that China has the world's biggest land army isn't exactly encouraging us to start arguing back to them. However, getting involved with the problem doesn't mean fighting. I think that although China is a big country, we should show support to Hong Kong - we have a shared history. While Hong Kong may have liked the way we ruled them, it was Britain that ruled Hong Kong, and made them desperate for a country like ours. Britain has influenced and encouraged Hong Kong to introduce a system like ours, but in some ways, if we hadn't taken control of them, then they wouldn't want to live that way. This is why I think we should show support (nothing more than that) to Hong Kong and their people.
04 Oct 2019
I believe that we should be involved with this problem as for we a (minor)part of it. Wether people want the Britain to get involved, On the news,China has told the Uk to ''back off'' after Boris Johnson warns of Beijin's increasing influence over Hong Kong,Adding onto that point,China has told the UK to back off after British foreign secretary Boris Johnson doubled down on concerns that the “one country, two systems” governing formula for Hong Kong was coming under increasing pressure.
Beijing’s foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said on Friday that Hong Kong affairs were purely China’s affairs, and accused Britain of making “irresponsible remarks” by releasing its latest six-monthly report on the city.
“Since July 1, 1997, Hong Kong affairs have been China’s internal affairs,” Lu said. “Britain has no power to intervene. There is no room for interference.”
Very good evidence to support your point-a show of strong reasoning!
05 Oct 2019
In my opinion I think we should get into the Hong Kong crisis because we was in the Honk Kong crisis for 150 years and we made a deal with Hong Kong but because China is trying to take over Hong Kong, Hong Kong is breaking the deal with us and they are breaking a few of the rules to. On the other hand I disagree that we should get into the Hong Kong crisis because it will make China angry and upset with us and therefore they could get revenge on us from taking Hong Kong away from them.
05 Oct 2019
I think England should get involved in the Hong Kong crisis because we are apart of it still even though 20 years ago we gave Hong Kong back they are still under our control as they live by our rules stated in a contract made by England to China. However, if England do get involved would a war occur? Would England then become at war with China? And would our country become wrecked and ruined like China and Hong Kong? But if we don't get involved them are China going to win and take away basic human right from Hong Kong. I believe everyone in the world should have basic human rights and the right to stand up to what they want, do what they want and be what they want.
You've shown why some reasons are better than others, responsible_duck, well done!
07 Oct 2019
I believe that Britain should not intervene. Yes it would solve huge amounts of problems but if we do China and Hong Kong won’t have the space to talk and communicate before it gets even worse . We have took them over China’s power before and it is not our responsibility to do it again . If we do intervene we could make things a lot worse and might even start a civil war . So I do hope the can come to a decision between them selves
07 Oct 2019
I think that we should because in 1997 china agreed that there will be one country two systems till 2047 so I think that we should intervene.
08 Oct 2019
we should get involed because we owned Hong Kong
Yeah we did for ONE HUNDRED YEARS before but it might not be suitable at the moment.
08 Oct 2019
we would have a world war 3
08 Oct 2019
we should intervene because we don,t want a world war three
08 Oct 2019
we should get involved because it is are world to and if we dont stop it will careon for ever
08 Oct 2019
this is just my opinion i don't think that we shod get involved because it code effect our country in a bad way.
08 Oct 2019
My opinion is ... that we don't get involved because we could end up putting our self in a high risk of danger and I would hate that a lot!
08 Oct 2019
i say we should try and save Hong Kong from china who with me
08 Oct 2019
I am in the middle because if we do intervene then we could lose a lot of supplies that would impact our life and we will lose the ability to eat the food we can today. On the other hand, I believe we should intervene because I want to help Hong Kong in the in the best way possible because their rights are restricted.
i actually agree
08 Oct 2019
We don’t need war
08 Oct 2019
I think Britain should get involved. We still share responsibility for Hong Kong and as they still live under our rules for many different aspects of their lives we should back them up. If we didn't help then China will continue to try and control Hong Kong, resulting in them loosing their basic human rights. As we signed one country, two systems in 1997 after handing Hong Kong back to china it makes us liable to help. It would also help build better relationships between the two countries meaning if a war ever occurred we would have more allies to help us fight unlike what happend during the Spanish civil war and ww2.
Good reasoning shown here, free_iceberg. Do you think other countries have a responsibility to intervene too?
I believe that England has the most responsibility to help. While surrounding countries such as Russia and India should only become involved if it begins to effect their own countries as if they become involved they have to them choose sides which may not help the situation due to the own beliefs of different leaders. It may also cause friction which at a later date may become life or death in situations such as war.
wow free__iceberg that was inpressive you have 100% convinced me.
Can you tell us what it was that convinced you, extraordinary_tamarind?
09 Oct 2019
I don't think we should because Hong Kong need to deel with this by them selves!!!!!
09 Oct 2019
Well I don’t think we should because most of the other countries are ignoring them so I think that they should be able to handle it themselves because even if they are right or wrong we still haven’t heard from all both sides of the issue well we have a little bit but that doesn’t mean we heard everything.I don’t think anyone knows what’s coming.
09 Oct 2019
In my opinion we should not get involved with Hong Kongs's crisis as we may end up getting involved in China's buisness.If this happens China may see us helping Hong Kong and will try to stop us.This may begin a war.
10 Oct 2019
I don’t think that Britain shouldn’t get involved because most of where we get our clothes and brands are from China and we wouldn’t want to risk all of that. And Britain shouldn’t intervene because they could solve it on there own.
10 Oct 2019
i think we have left this crises way to long thinking it would get solved but know it is getting way to serious for example a 17 year old got killed in the protest . i got this fact from a child in BNC club said that .
10 Oct 2019
I'm in the middle because maybe we should as they need our help. China has the biggest army in the world though so maybe we shouldn't. Most of our clothes, technology, pottery and materials come from China as well so it could affect our trading if we helped Hong Kong.
10 Oct 2019
😎😎😎😎
What are you trying to say.
10 Oct 2019
In my opinion I think that we should get involved in this matter but some people think that we have too much going on like Brexit .The bigger matter here is obviously the deal with China because some peoples rights are not being respected which in not alright .Also some people have been shot because of violent protesting and we need to help .
11 Oct 2019
Don't involved let's not start a war
I agree!!!!
11 Oct 2019
we should get involved because China has broken the promise that we made and it is kind of are fault
How? This is really not our fault it is China's fault as they are breaking the rule we made (and the law)
11 Oct 2019
In my opinion, NO WAY
Can you tell us why, decisive_spring?
I say this because if we interfere and stop it we could lose China's trust and lose our trade deals with them
i think we should because we are not only strong tough we are a team if one country is in trouble we all are.
11 Oct 2019
Hong Kong are taking it violently,and China cant do nothing. I
say yes but again we were the ones (UK) who agreed with the agreement so i say yes
12 Oct 2019
We have agreed a deal and China have changed the deal. We could lose up to 4 percent of the British population if we go so I am saying that we don’t go anywhere
Could you tell us how you calculated this, social_volcano?
12 Oct 2019
The 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests are a series of ongoing demonstrations in Hong Kong and other cities around the world against the Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislati this about how the protest started
14 Oct 2019
I also have a suggestion. my suggestion is
that we should get involved because we made a promise
20 Oct 2019
Hi buzzing_atom. In my opinion, I think that Britain should interfere because Britain was already in it. The crown colony of Hong Kong officially reverted to chinese sovereignty, ending 150 years of British rule.
25 Oct 2019
Hi buzzing_atom. In my opinion, I feel like we should help Hong Kong because eventhough China is a good trading partner, there are other places that we can rely on and not just always China! We also have our factories and we can make sure to make enough items for all of us! We also have to get used to being a bit independent and trying to create things on our own because we don't know what will happen in the future. Eventhough China has one of the largest armies in the world, we have defeated them many times and if we don't defeat them, we can easily ask other countries for help. If we wanted to do that, we need to do it in good timing because if we wanted to ask America, they are currently battling Turkey ( sorry if it's off topic ). Eventhough it's not our business, we have a shared history with Hong Kong for over 150 years! They are counting for us! Well, the conciquences for us might be if we start a war between us and China but I hope we can manage.
I hope you enjoyed reading this.
-talented_cookie
05 Nov 2019
i think we should intervene for two reasons 1. china has the biggest army in the world 2. we will lose are biggest trading partner
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