Would Churchill have deported Chinese merchant seamen after the war?

Would Churchill's government have carried out the same postwar deportation of Chinese merchant seamen?

The discussion remained unsettled: some thought Churchill would have done the same, while others argued that his paternalism and the seamen's wartime service might have made him resist.

A live discussion asks whether the forced deportations should be understood as a policy any postwar government might have pursued. Some participants argued that Churchill would have acted no differently from Labour, while others pointed to his paternalism and the men's wartime service as reasons he might have resisted. The counterfactual remains unresolved, and the policy is difficult to reconcile with Clement Attlee's wider record. The exchange separates the documented deportations from speculation about how an alternative government might have behaved.