{"id":20002,"date":"2020-07-03T01:02:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T16:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/02\/britains-citizenship-offer-to-hong-kong-how-china-could-respond"},"modified":"2020-07-03T01:02:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T16:02:31","slug":"britains-citizenship-offer-to-hong-kong-how-china-could-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20002","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s citizenship offer to Hong Kong: how China could respond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China said UK will \u2018bear all consequences\u2019, raising possibility of retaliation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> has responded angrily to a UK 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 Hong Kong<\/a> with British national overseas status (BNO), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/03\/britain-could-change-immigration-rules-for-hong-kong-citizens\">the right to settle<\/a> in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said Britain would \u201cbear all consequences\u201d, and China\u2019s ambassador to the UK later said that Beijing \u201creserve[d] the right to take corresponding measures\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/02\/britains-citizenship-offer-to-hong-kong-how-china-could-respond\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China said UK will \u2018bear all consequences\u2019, raising possibility of retaliationChina has responded angrily to a UK promise to offer nearly 3 million residents of Hong Kong with British national overseas status (BNO), the right to settle in the UK.China\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[41,50,950,48,52,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20002","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","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20002","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20003,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20002\/revisions\/20003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}