{"id":18905,"date":"2020-06-02T12:57:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T03:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/02\/us-may-take-in-hongkongers-ahead-of-china-security-laws-pompeo-suggests"},"modified":"2020-06-02T12:57:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T03:57:57","slug":"us-may-take-in-hongkongers-ahead-of-china-security-laws-pompeo-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18905","title":{"rendered":"US may take in Hongkongers ahead of China security laws, Pompeo suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of state says he is considering immigration option similar to move announced last week by UK <\/p>\n<p>The US is considering letting people who no longer \u201cfeel comfortable\u201d in Hong Kong move to the US, secretary of state Mike Pompeo has suggested.<\/p>\n<p>The comments, made in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/multimedia\/wth-is-going-on-in-the-world-secretary-of-state-pompeo-on-china-iran-venezuela-and-partisan-politics-at-home\/\">conversation<\/a> with the American Enterprise Institute on Friday, come amid worsening relations between the two countries over China\u2019s moves to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/26\/chinas-military-says-it-is-prepared-to-protect-security-in-hong-kong-as-protests-grow\">impose national security laws<\/a> on the semi-autonomous region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/02\/us-may-take-in-hongkongers-ahead-of-china-security-laws-pompeo-suggests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of state says he is considering immigration option similar to move announced last week by UK The US is considering letting people who no longer \u201cfeel comfortable\u201d in Hong Kong move to the US, secretary of state Mike Pompeo has suggested.The c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48,491,472,80,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-migration","category-mike-pompeo","category-protest","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18906,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18905\/revisions\/18906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}