In the 1990s, the Tongan government controversially sold Tongan passports to Chinese nationals and residents of Hong Kong, enabling them to settle in Tonga and leading to the appearance of a visible Chinese community in the South Pacific kingdom.
上世紀九十年代，湯加政府有爭議地將湯加護照出售給中國公民和香港居民，使他們能夠在湯加定居，並在南太平洋國家出現一個明顯的華人社區。