{"id":21179,"date":"2020-07-30T23:57:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T14:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/30\/hong-kong-china-says-it-will-not-recognise-uk-overseas-passports"},"modified":"2020-07-30T23:57:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T14:57:12","slug":"hong-kong-china-says-it-will-not-recognise-uk-overseas-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21179","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: China says it will not recognise UK overseas passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador\u2019s warning comes in response to UK\u2019s special visa offer to Hong Kong citizens<\/p>\n<p>China will not recognise the British national (overseas) passport as a legal travel document, raising the prospect that the 3 million Hong Kong citizens eligible for the passport will be banned from leaving Hong Kong by the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>The warning was made at a press conference by the Chinese ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, in which he also warned that it was hard to imagine a global Britain that bypassed or excluded China. Decoupling from China would mean decoupling from growth and the future, he suggested.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/30\/hong-kong-china-says-it-will-not-recognise-uk-overseas-passports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador\u2019s warning comes in response to UK\u2019s special visa offer to Hong Kong citizensChina will not recognise the British national (overseas) passport as a legal travel document, raising the prospect that the 3 million Hong Kong citizens eligible for&#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":[50,48,517,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-huawei","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\/21179","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=21179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21180,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions\/21180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}