{"id":27493,"date":"2021-01-29T10:22:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T01:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/29\/britain-launches-visa-scheme-for-hong-kong-citizens"},"modified":"2021-01-30T03:01:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T18:01:29","slug":"britain-launches-visa-scheme-for-hong-kong-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27493","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: China will no longer recognise British national overseas citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after UK says people with status can move to Britain and eventually settle <\/p>\n<p>China has announced it will no longer recognise the passports of British national overseas citizens just hours after the UK launched its scheme to give passport holders a path to residency as political freedoms decline in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom 31 January, China will no longer recognise the so-called BNO passport as a travel document and ID document, and reserves the right to take further actions,\u201d the foreign ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, told reporters, according to AFP.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/29\/britain-launches-visa-scheme-for-hong-kong-citizens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after UK says people with status can move to Britain and eventually settle China has announced it will no longer recognise the passports of British national overseas citizens just hours after the UK launched its scheme to give passport holde&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"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":[41,48,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/27493","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\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27523,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27493\/revisions\/27523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}