The dual citizenship issues that have now entangled so many of our Parliamentarians have thrown up many issues, and one of the most interesting – read significant – is that of the ancient Chinese law of jus sanguinis ‘right of blood’ still adhered to under Chinese law.
Labour Senate leader Penny Wong, who was born in Malaysia, may be considered by China, under the legalities of jus sanguinis to be a ‘daughter of China’.
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