{"id":27591,"date":"2021-01-31T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/31\/leave-hong-kong-before-its-too-late-say-those-who-now-call-britain-home"},"modified":"2021-01-31T18:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T09:00:33","slug":"leave-hong-kong-before-its-too-late-say-those-who-now-call-britain-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27591","title":{"rendered":"Leave Hong Kong before it\u2019s too late, say those who now call Britain home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former residents who have chosen to take their chances in the UK after Beijing\u2019s clampdown speak out<\/p>\n<p>Aragon starts work on Monday as an estate agent in London, focused on finding clients who want to move to Britain\u2019s capital from his home city of Hong Kong, a move he made himself four months ago.<\/p>\n<p>His job is one of the first created by a new visa scheme that opens today, giving millions of Hong Kong residents the right to move to Britain and eventually seek citizenship, in response to a Chinese government crackdown in the city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/31\/leave-hong-kong-before-its-too-late-say-those-who-now-call-britain-home\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former residents who have chosen to take their chances in the UK after Beijing\u2019s clampdown speak outAragon starts work on Monday as an estate agent in London, focused on finding clients who want to move to Britain\u2019s capital from his home city of Hong K&#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":[41,50,48,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/27591","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=27591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27593,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27591\/revisions\/27593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}