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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He’s a Chinese national.[/quote]

[b]He is actually from Hong Kong[/b]. They tend to be pretty anti-China (or more specifically, anti-Chinese communist government) behind closed doors, similar to how a Taiwanese national would be. [/quote]
No. Born in Tianjin, China, which is the mainland. But so what?[/quote]

His family immigrated from China to Hong Kong. Literally everyone in Hong Kong (or their ancestors) was once an immigrant from China; many are political exiles who chose to leave China because they disagree with the communists. Learn your Chinese history if you decide to comment on it. [/quote]
So was he not born in the mainland China?[/quote]

In a geographical sense Hong Kong is “mainland” china.  In a political sense, if we are talking about someone born in the late 20th century, no, they were not born in “mainland China.” They were effectively born in Great Britain.  One of my good friends growing up was from Hong Kong, born in the 70s and her parents clearly wanted to get out before 1997.  [/quote]

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