Posted on 07/31/2020 9:42:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
China is threatening to stop recognizing the British passports held by millions of Hong Kongers, creating the prospect of up to three million people being banned from leaving the region.
Liu Xiaoming, China's ambassador to the UK, on Thursday issued the threat in the latest escalation of a dispute between London and Beijing which began when China imposed a draconian security law on Hong Kong, a former British colony.
The new law, which has seen hundreds of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong arrested, prompted Boris Johnson's UK government to offer all Hong Kong citizens — some three million people — the chance to live and work in Britain via five years limited leave, which could then lead to full UK citizenship.
Xiaoming yesterday warned the UK that China would take steps to stop recognizing British national (overseas) passports as valid travel documents, effectively banning Hong Kong citizens from leaving and moving to the UK.
"Since the UK violated the pledge and commitment on BNO we have to take other measures not to recognise the BNO as a valid travel document," he said in a press conference on Thursday.
He insisted "China threatens no one" but "we just let you know the consequences."
Xiaoming said: "China wants to be a friend of the UK and a UK partner, but if you do not want to be a partner and our friend, and you want to treat China as a hostile power, you will pay the price.
"We have a thousand reasons to make this relationship successful and not one reason to make it fail."
The new law imposed on Hong Kong by the Chinese Communist Party, which is also opposed by the European Union and the US, is designed to curtail anti-government protests there.
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They should have gotten out in 1997 while they still could have.
Freedom for Hong Kong! 🇭🇰
Freedom for China! 🇨🇳
They made the same mistake most conservatives here make: assumed the US Government would protect them.
A lot of them wound up in SF. Property values and vehicles went up.
LeBron couldn’t care less. He’s busy chasing “systemic racism” butterflies.
Things slowed down after they were fleeced by the Canadian tax man.
The NBA approves what Chinese communists are doing.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeMZ2c7UwAAoCWW.jpg
And despite that they will still find a way.
Can we trade 3 million BLMers for hard working non communist Hong Kong Chinese?
Hong Kong has an airport, can they not board there now, or does Red China already run their airport?
Also, two can play at that game. Don’t allow anyone with a passport from mainland China into the UK.
“We have a thousand reasons to make this relationship successful and not one reason to make it fail.””
I can think of one. You are a totalitarian dictatorship that just unleashed a virus on the world while lying about it.
And the winner is:
“Don’t allow anyone with a Chinese passport to enter the US.”
Just give them a regular British passport and not the ersatz BNO (British national Overseas) one.
Have them swear and renounce communism and red Chinese citizenship.
But in any case, if you are a HK citizen, now is 1938 and you are a Jew in Germany. Time to find a way... soon.
We are probably at the last moments we can seriously impede communist China. And we have probably 80% of Congress and Wall Street siding with them in one form or another.
We have a problem.
This will china even more respectable in Senator Feinswine’s eyes.
Of course Britain is totally unprepared for such a fight
and would most likely lose. They'd need the USA, Australia,
etc to help liberate HK. And that's not going to happen.
Mega problem soon to be addressed by MAGA.
I suggest Pompeo call up China and tell them Trump is getting ready to recognize Taiwan as an independent country and BTW we’ll be basing a carrier group there if they continue their shit.
Threaten to recognize Taiwan if China follows through with their threat.
I agree with your analysis:
I do not think even the CCP would threaten to detain 3M citizens of the UK.
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