{"id":39845,"date":"2021-12-16T13:34:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T04:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/16\/beijing-criticises-uk-for-creating-second-class-citizens-with-hong-kong-visa-scheme"},"modified":"2021-12-16T13:34:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T04:34:58","slug":"beijing-criticises-uk-for-creating-second-class-citizens-with-hong-kong-visa-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39845","title":{"rendered":"Beijing criticises UK for creating \u2018second-class citizens\u2019 with Hong Kong visa scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 90,000 Hong Kongers apply to resettle in the UK this year amid a crackdown on dissent in the territory<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has claimed the UK wants to make Hong Kongers \u201csecond-class citizens\u201d with its British national (overseas) (BNO) visa scheme, after new figures showed almost 90,000 people have applied from the former British colony to resettle in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]in flagrant violation of its international commitment, the UK tries to turn many Hong Kong residents into \u2018second-class citizens\u2019 in the UK and reap benefit from this,\u201d foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said in a weekly press conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/16\/beijing-criticises-uk-for-creating-second-class-citizens-with-hong-kong-visa-scheme\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 90,000 Hong Kongers apply to resettle in the UK this year amid a crackdown on dissent in the territoryBeijing has claimed the UK wants to make Hong Kongers \u201csecond-class citizens\u201d with its British national (overseas) (BNO) visa scheme, after new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2730,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39845","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\/2730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39858,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39845\/revisions\/39858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}