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China threatens to trap up to 3 million people in Hong Kong by no longer recognizing their UK overseas passports
Business Insider ^ | 07/31/2020 | Adam Payne

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: china; hongkong; passports; uk
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1 posted on 07/31/2020 9:42:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

They should have gotten out in 1997 while they still could have.


2 posted on 07/31/2020 9:43:05 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: SeekAndFind
I really hope and pray something just finally gives in that part of the world. All the better it it impacts our elections and media narratives too.

Freedom for Hong Kong! 🇭🇰
Freedom for China! 🇨🇳

3 posted on 07/31/2020 9:45:50 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Buckeye McFrog

They made the same mistake most conservatives here make: assumed the US Government would protect them.


4 posted on 07/31/2020 9:46:18 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: Buckeye McFrog

A lot of them wound up in SF. Property values and vehicles went up.


5 posted on 07/31/2020 9:46:24 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: SeekAndFind

LeBron couldn’t care less. He’s busy chasing “systemic racism” butterflies.


6 posted on 07/31/2020 9:47:26 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Vancouver real estate exploded years back due to an influx of Hong Kong money.

Things slowed down after they were fleeced by the Canadian tax man.

7 posted on 07/31/2020 9:53:55 AM PDT by caltaxed (ake)
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To: windsorknot

The NBA approves what Chinese communists are doing.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeMZ2c7UwAAoCWW.jpg


8 posted on 07/31/2020 9:54:53 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: SeekAndFind
"We have a thousand reasons to make this relationship successful and not one reason to make it fail."

And despite that they will still find a way.

9 posted on 07/31/2020 9:58:54 AM PDT by edwinland
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To: SeekAndFind

Can we trade 3 million BLMers for hard working non communist Hong Kong Chinese?


10 posted on 07/31/2020 9:59:54 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does anyone know of any Democrat, who does the right thing today?)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


11 posted on 07/31/2020 10:01:14 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: SeekAndFind

“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.


12 posted on 07/31/2020 10:02:58 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DesertRhino

And the winner is:

“Don’t allow anyone with a Chinese passport to enter the US.”


13 posted on 07/31/2020 10:03:53 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


14 posted on 07/31/2020 10:10:26 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: meatloaf

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.


15 posted on 07/31/2020 10:12:23 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: SeekAndFind

This will china even more respectable in Senator Feinswine’s eyes.


16 posted on 07/31/2020 11:05:55 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Since the Chi-Comms have reneged on the aggrement to allow
the fifty years of autonomy for Hong Kong
the UK should just reclaim Hong Hong. Reinstall the
Governor General, send in the British army and navy and
and prepare for war with communist China.

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.

17 posted on 07/31/2020 11:18:24 AM PDT by StormEye
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To: DesertRhino

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.


18 posted on 07/31/2020 11:36:15 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: SeekAndFind

Threaten to recognize Taiwan if China follows through with their threat.


19 posted on 07/31/2020 11:55:40 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: DesertRhino

I agree with your analysis:

I do not think even the CCP would threaten to detain 3M citizens of the UK.


20 posted on 07/31/2020 12:32:31 PM PDT by beancounter13
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