{"id":19967,"date":"2020-07-02T08:40:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T23:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/02\/china-could-prevent-hongkongers-moving-to-uk-says-dominic-raab"},"modified":"2020-07-02T21:02:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:02:20","slug":"china-may-block-hongkongers-from-moving-to-uk-admits-dominic-raab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19967","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: China threatens retaliation against UK for offer to Hongkongers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing says Britain will \u2018bear all consequences\u2019 of helping fleeing Hongkongers <\/p>\n<p>China has said it will take countermeasures against the UK should it grant residency to Hongkongers fleeing a harsh new national security law, promising that the UK would \u201cbear all consequences\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, senior Chinese officials said the UK had no right to give residency to Hongkongers in response to Beijing forcing a sweeping anti-sedition law on the territory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/02\/china-could-prevent-hongkongers-moving-to-uk-says-dominic-raab\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing says Britain will \u2018bear all consequences\u2019 of helping fleeing Hongkongers China has said it will take countermeasures against the UK should it grant residency to Hongkongers fleeing a harsh new national security law, promising that the UK would &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1417,"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":[41,50,950,48,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-dominic-raab","category-hong-kong","category-uk-news","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\/19967","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\/1417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19994,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19967\/revisions\/19994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}