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Message to the Chinese community on how to vote in the EU Referendum

By Tatyan Cheung | Thu 9th June 2016 - 4:17 pm

 

The Conservative government (which includes the REMAIN and LEAVE camps) together with the British media have created a lot of fog, untruths and statistics (read ‘lies’) about the EU and Britain’s membership. It does not seem meaningful to discuss IF we don’t do this we can do that, when there are countless probabilities of an IF outcome, especially outcomes that occur in the future.

My message to the Chinese community in Britain to support the REMAIN campaign is, firstly, to consider the historical context and the pursuit of peace, and secondly, the origins of the Chinese community in Britain and the values we bring to British society.

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    It's "referendums"....