P. Dolden asserts that there's no difference between Chinese from the mainland and Hong Kong people.

Correct, however, under British rule, Hong Kong was free. Like Taiwan, Hong Kong demonstrated that Chinese people can manage self-government very successfully.

Many Chinese immigrants to Hong Kong in the last four decades fled China to escape the brutal Chinese Communist Party regime.

In Hong Kong, the encroachment by the Xi-led CCP relentlessly eroded Hong Kong's freedoms to an intolerable extent.

The CCP ‘governs' by soul-destroying propaganda, oppressive censorship, corruption, excessive surveillance, an iron fist, steel cap boot and gun butt.

Hong Kong people are outraged by such thuggish usurpation. It's the free world's responsibility to defend Hong Kong.

Mrs J Shakespear, Otumoetai