{"id":20551,"date":"2020-07-15T01:26:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T16:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/14\/how-many-hongkongers-will-want-to-come-to-britain-is-unclear"},"modified":"2020-07-15T01:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T16:26:03","slug":"how-many-hongkongers-will-want-to-come-to-britain-is-unclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20551","title":{"rendered":"How many Hongkongers will want to come to Britain is unclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are 3 million eligible for citizenship, but many factors will determine if it taken up<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Office claim that 200,000 Hong Kong citizens will want to come to the UK over the next five years to take up Britain\u2019s offer of citizenship is a very broad estimate and not a forecast, diplomats admit.<\/p>\n<p>The figure suggests less than 10% of the 3 million Hongkongers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/02\/china-could-prevent-hongkongers-moving-to-uk-says-dominic-raab\">eligible for a British National Overseas passport<\/a> will be attracted to a new life in Britain.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/14\/how-many-hongkongers-will-want-to-come-to-britain-is-unclear\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 3 million eligible for citizenship, but many factors will determine if it taken upThe Foreign Office claim that 200,000 Hong Kong citizens will want to come to the UK over the next five years to take up Britain\u2019s offer of citizenship is a ver&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[41,531,50,48,4,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-boris-johnson","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-politics","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\/20551","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20562,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20551\/revisions\/20562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}