HK unrest: Could China have offered choice of nationality to Hong Kongers?

As the anti-extradition protests - ostensibly directed at the Hong Kong administration but very much aimed also at the Chinese government - extend into their third month, repercussions are being felt around the world, with Hong Kong students being confronted by mainland Chinese students on campuses from Canada to Australia and New Zealand.

Inevitably, other parties are drawn into the conflicts. At Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, the board of the student society, which represents 25,000 undergraduates, voted on Aug 1 to stand up to "bullying" and "harassment".

The week before, on the other side of the globe, the student union at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, voted to support pro-democracy protestors and to condemn the "subversion of democratic rights and freedoms in both Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China" by their governments.