FEIGN FOR HONG KONG CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Part 2 of Larry Feign's speech to theHong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club on 30 April 2004:
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Anyway, what is considered a Chinese citizen? We know that Tibetans are Chinese, as are Uighurs and Mongolians and lots of other people. In other words, anyone born within what China declares to be its sovereign territory is automatically considered to be Chinese.
China subscribes to the "Nya nya nya nya nyaaa nyaaa we were here first!" system of defining its rightful territory. Tibet, Xinjiang, Mongolia, parts of India and Siberia are all part of China's territorial interests, by virtue of historical claims. Just a few years ago they found a few broken Chinese pots on one of the Spratly atolls, and that was enough justification to declare the entire western Pacific to be Chinese territory.
This map shows the Mongol Empire, founded by Genghis Khan. Considering that Genghis Khan's grandson Khubilai Khan became the first Yuan Emperor of China, and taking into account that China considers Mongolians to be Chinese anyway, it becomes clear that everything on this map, under the Nya nya nya nya nya nya! principle, is China. See? It includes Korea, all of Siberia south of the tundra line, Iraq, Turkey, Armenia. All rightfully part of China! Funny…it doesn't include Taiwan. Hm.
But back to the question of how I can claim to be Chinese. My family traces its origins to the area around Kiev (current "capital" of the Chinese breakaway province of Ukraine). Which, as you can see on this map, is rightfully part of China. In other words, my entire family is pure, 100 percent ethnically Chinese, which makes me a Chinese citizen. There's nothing about nose size in the Basic Law.
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