In WW2 the most highly decorated unit in the US army was the 442nd Infantry Regiment comprised solely of Japanese Americans.

Dear Chris,

The United States was not a new colony. It was a new country.

Considering the Hessians I think a greater proportion of the colonists had English backgrounds than those in the forces fighting for the English. Some of my American son in law's ancestors were loyalists and went to Canada after the American Revolution. The Canadian and American branches of the family keep in touch.

Dear Foxy,

There's an Australian town called Mercy which serves a wonderful, revivifying tea made from koalas. If you order it you will see little bits of koala floating about because the Koala tea of Mercy is not strained.

Dear David F.,

The Koala Tea of Mercy may not be strained
but it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
into the cups and eager mouths beneath. It is
twice blest: It blesseth them that give and
them that receive ...

Thank you for telling me about the town of Mercy.
And those delightful Koalas whose attributes we
can enjoy with awe.

David,

in any case, my gut feeling and reading suggests that the overwhelming majority of Chinese Australians embrace Austalia for what it is and what it stands for, but they too acknowledge that there would be a very small minority that would be prone to accept CCP infleunce.

The media and other literature also shows that a small minority of non-chinese also support CCP influence one way or another.

If you embrace liberal democracy, as I do, then you must have faith that the system stands for something and will make appeal.

Most human beings are reasonable people, and people living in a decent liberal democracy can see the benefits.

While HK was not democratic in a western sense, the people there also knew what they were losing.

Dear Chris,

«the overwhelming majority of Chinese Australians embrace Austalia for what it is and what it stands for, but they too acknowledge that there would be a very small minority that would be prone to accept CCP infleunce.»

Yes, the overwhelming majority of Chinese Australians embrace Australia and hate the CCP. However, many still have relatives in China (or Hong-Kong) and as normal/frail human beings, they do not want to risk their loved ones broken into spare parts for aging CCP members.

We love them, but also for their own good, unless we are able to bring over their relatives, they should only have access to supervised, less-responsible positions.

Chris,

Re your questions for numbers in revolutionary America I don't know much on figures other than to say that there were 2.5 million people in the colonies and after the war about 60,000 elected to migrate to Canada so I would say that the Americans had quite a lot of local support.