UK Collision Course With China: Bloomberg
UK Collision Course With China: Bloomberg
Read the article from Bloomberg about the United Kingdom taking a tough stance on China, seeking diversification for its 5G network and offering a path to citizenship for 3 million Hong Kongers.
Tim Ross, Kitty Donaldson and Thomas Seal assisted with this report.
Read UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s essay in the South China Morning Post:
“Today, about 350,000 of the territory’s people hold British National Overseas passports and another 2.5 million would be eligible to apply for them. At present, these passports allow visa-free access to the United Kingdom for up to six months.
“If China imposes its national security law, the British government will change our immigration rules and allow any holder of these passports from Hong Kong to come to the UK for a renewable period of 12 months and be given further immigration rights, including the right to work, which could place them on a route to citizenship. This would amount to one of the biggest changes in our visa system in British history.”