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UK to help Hong Kong protesters + China urges US & UK to stop interfering

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UK to help Hong Kong protesters (Four Nations + HK communities)
https://asianlite.com/news/uk-news/uk-to...rotesters/

EXCERPT: There are 300,000 BNO passport holders in Hong Kong and have the right to visit the UK for up to six months without a visa, reports the BBC. The BNO passports were issued to people in Hong Kong by the UK before the transfer of the territory to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.

Announcing the possible change in policy, [Foreign Secretary Dominic] Raab said the six-month limit on stays in the UK for BNO holders would be scrapped. “If China continues down this path and implements this national security legislation, we will remove that six month limit and allow those BNO passport holders to come to the UK and to apply to work and study for extendable periods of 12 months and that will itself provide a pathway to future citizenship,” he said.

Raab’s statement came after China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress, on Thursday approved a resolution prohibiting acts of secession, subversion, terrorism or conspiracy with foreign influences in the city, before sending it to the Standing Committee to craft the finer details.

The UK, US, Australia and Canada have also issued joint condemnation of Beijing’s plan. The four nations said imposing the security law would undermine the “one country, two systems” framework agreed before Hong Kong was handed over from British to Chinese rule in 1997. It guaranteed Hong Kong some autonomy and afforded rights and freedoms that do not exist in mainland China, the countries added... (MORE - details)

Deutsche Welle: [...] British and American delegates raised the issue in an informal, closed-door videoconference where China cannot block the agenda. China is one of five powers to wield a veto at the Security Council, making any formal session, let alone action, impossible on Hong Kong, a former British colony.

China denounced the move as "interference," saying that the Hong Kong law did not fall under the mandate of the Security Council, which was to maintain international security and peace. China's ambassador to the UN, Zhang Jun, demanded that the US and Britain "immediately stop interfering in Hong Kong affairs." (MORE - details)


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