"Britain Has Summoned The Chinese Ambassador"

Woo Hoo. As may in fact be the name of the Chinese Ambassador.

There is giddy talk today of "carpeting" and what have you. I mean, come on. Have a word with yourselves. "Consequences for China"? What consequences for China, you silly Hunt? Pull the other one. 

Nobody else on earth has even noticed what are in any case the pretty mild events in Just Another Provincial Chinese City, and even in Britain there would be nothing that we could do about them even if we wanted to.

We were never going to have any choice but to hand back Hong Kong when the lease was up, so it would have more honourable never to have made the Joint Declaration. We always knew that there would be absolutely nothing that we could possibly have done to enforce it.

After many decades of unleashing troops in Hong Kong when people dared to call for economic justice or for the representative government that might have delivered it, with the worst repression under the Labour Government of the late 1960s, the people who are now making a fuss about Hong Kong changed the law to keep its yellow-skinned, slitty-eyed, Ting-Ting-talking inhabitants out of Britain.

That entailed doing the same to the people of every other British Overseas Territory apart from Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands. Google Images will show you what made the Gibraltarians and the Falkland Islanders so different from, say, the English-speaking people of Montserrat or Saint Helena. There was no "Anglosphere" then. There is none today, either.