{"id":19048,"date":"2020-06-07T17:03:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T08:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/07\/beijings-lessons-and-laws-why-hong-kong-families-are-looking-to-britain"},"modified":"2020-06-07T17:03:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T08:03:45","slug":"beijings-lessons-and-laws-why-hong-kong-families-are-looking-to-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19048","title":{"rendered":"Beijing\u2019s lessons and laws: why Hong Kong families are looking to Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fear of mainland China is driving dissidents, parents and business people to take Boris Johnson\u2019s path to citizenship<\/p>\n<p>Arthur fears that as the Chinese Communist party tightens its grip on Hong Kong, his kids\u2019 education <a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1530527-20200606.htm\">will be undermined<\/a>. Gloria Siu is worried that the sweeping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/28\/china-vote-npc-national-security-laws-hong-kong-us-protest\">new security law <\/a>imposed by Beijing could mean she faces retribution for pro-democracy posts on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Both say they plan to take up Boris Johnson\u2019s unexpected offer of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/03\/britain-could-change-immigration-rules-for-hong-kong-citizens\">path to British citizenship<\/a> for the city\u2019s residents \u2013 if China doesn\u2019t back down on its harsh legislation \u2013 not because they want to leave their home, but because they fear what the future holds there.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/07\/beijings-lessons-and-laws-why-hong-kong-families-are-looking-to-britain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear of mainland China is driving dissidents, parents and business people to take Boris Johnson\u2019s path to citizenshipArthur fears that as the Chinese Communist party tightens its grip on Hong Kong, his kids\u2019 education will be undermined. Gloria Siu is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1365,"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":[41,531,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-boris-johnson","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19048","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\/1365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19049,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19048\/revisions\/19049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}