{"id":19973,"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":"2020-07-02T08:40:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T23:40:49","slug":"china-may-block-hongkongers-from-moving-to-uk-admits-dominic-raab-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19973","title":{"rendered":"China may block Hongkongers from moving to UK, admits Dominic Raab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign secretary says Britain can do little to \u2018coercively force\u2019 China to let citizens leave<\/p>\n<p>Britain could do little to \u201ccoercively force\u201d China if it tries to block Hongkongers from coming to the UK to take up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/jul\/01\/hong-kong-dominic-raab-announces-citizenship-pathway-as-china-imposes-security-law-video\">government visa pledge<\/a>, the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has admitted.<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson has said he will honour a promise to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/03\/britain-could-change-immigration-rules-for-hong-kong-citizens\">offer nearly 3 million residents of the former British colony the right to settle<\/a> in the UK and ultimately apply for citizenship after Beijing imposed a controversial new national security law.<\/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>Foreign secretary says Britain can do little to \u2018coercively force\u2019 China to let citizens leaveBritain could do little to \u201ccoercively force\u201d China if it tries to block Hongkongers from coming to the UK to take up a government visa pledge, the foreign se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1418,"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-19973","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\/19973","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\/1418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19974,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973\/revisions\/19974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}