{"id":4962,"date":"2020-07-02T08:40:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T08:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2020-07-02T08:40:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T08:40:42","slug":"hong-kong-china-warns-britain-against-implementing-citizenship-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=4962","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: China warns Britain against implementing citizenship plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London:\u00a0<\/strong>The whole world has turned against China even as the east Asian giant is engaged in a military confrontation with India on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh.<\/p>\n<p>Britain on Wednesday extended Hong Kong residents a broader path to citizenship in response to China\u2019s sweeping new security law for the former UK territory.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s announcement represents the most direct international response to legislation that has been roundly condemned by Western allies.<\/p>\n<p>It comes during a London review of its entire range of relations with Beijing that includes a reassessment of the role China\u2019s Huawei is playing in the buildup of Britain\u2019s 5G data network.<\/p>\n<p>However, the move has not been very popular with the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_yeti_done\">China warned Britain on Thursday it could retaliate with \u201ccorresponding measures\u201d for London\u2019s decision to extend a broader path to citizenship for the residents of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<div class=\"_yeti_main_container\" data-attr=\"not-done\"><\/div>\n<p>Britain\u2019s offer came in response to a sweeping new security law that China unveiled for the former British territory this week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fluid-container\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1485328452682222244\" class=\"webonly alC\" data-size=\"fluid\" data-adsslot=\"TOI\/TOI_ROS\/TOI_ROS_AS\/TOI_ROS_AS_Mrec_MID_300\">Hong Kong was under UK jurisdiction until its handover to China in 1997 with a guarantee that Beijing would preserve the city\u2019s judicial and legislative autonomy for 50 years.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Chinese embassy in London stressed that \u201call Chinese compatriots residing in Hong Kong are Chinese nationals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The British offer covered almost three million Hong Kongers who either have a British National Overseas passports or are eligible to apply for one.<\/p>\n<p>The embassy said these people were Chinese nationals as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London:\u00a0The whole world has turned against China even as the east Asian giant is engaged in a military confrontation with India on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh. Britain on Wednesday extended Hong Kong residents a broader path to citizenship in response to China\u2019s sweeping new security law for the former UK territory. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4964,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions\/4964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}