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From the BBC news site...
"The UK could offer British National (Overseas) passport holders in Hong Kong a path to UK citizenship if China does not suspend plans for a security law in the territory, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says."
Full story here...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52842303
I'd change "could offer" to "has offered" and put a full stop after "citizenship."
300,000 is quite a chunk if they all want to come but IMO the UK has an obligation both because of past involvement but also regardless of that because it would surely be the right thing to do. I'm sure many HK would be a credit to any country they emigrate to.
I have a Chinese brother in law who normally avoids anything even remotely political like the plague but I've never seen him so animated as when talking about the unrest in HK. The HK are, he said, stupid to expect freedom. I can't agree with that and I do hope the UK and others do all they can to help resettle those who don't wish to live in a HK increasingly subject to Chinese systems.
I'm hoping the UK strengthens it's stance and offers any BNO HK the opportunity to come to the UK with a fast tracked citizenship route.
"The UK could offer British National (Overseas) passport holders in Hong Kong a path to UK citizenship if China does not suspend plans for a security law in the territory, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says."
Full story here...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52842303
I'd change "could offer" to "has offered" and put a full stop after "citizenship."
300,000 is quite a chunk if they all want to come but IMO the UK has an obligation both because of past involvement but also regardless of that because it would surely be the right thing to do. I'm sure many HK would be a credit to any country they emigrate to.
I have a Chinese brother in law who normally avoids anything even remotely political like the plague but I've never seen him so animated as when talking about the unrest in HK. The HK are, he said, stupid to expect freedom. I can't agree with that and I do hope the UK and others do all they can to help resettle those who don't wish to live in a HK increasingly subject to Chinese systems.
I'm hoping the UK strengthens it's stance and offers any BNO HK the opportunity to come to the UK with a fast tracked citizenship route.