I suspect Trump brokered this deal.
China had to gain something for going along with The Plan.
Trump offered them Hong Kong, but then what about its people?
Trump goes to the UK and says, “Listen, it was you British poofs who set up Hong Kong in the first place and left its people high and dry. If you agree to take in all its citizens when we hand it over to China then I will sweep your connection to #Spygate under the rug.”
If Americans knew the full extinct of the UK’s involvement in #SpyGate, you’d have every gun-loving Patriot with a speedboat headed over there with machine guns in hand to take out the royal family and every member of Parliament.
That’s what Boris Johnson means by the UK having “No Choice” but to take in the people of Hong Kong.
Trump negotiates the kind of deals that leave people with “no choice” but to accept.