No further details were given, leaving it unclear if any response would be aimed at the UK or at the BNO passport holders, and when it might come. Some reaction is to be expected, however, given China’s increasingly aggressive international stance on issues from its border dispute with Indiato control of Hong Kong. “Beijing has to respond robustly because not doing so would make Xi [Jinping, China’s president] look weak domestically, and that is not an option,” said Prof Steve Tsang, director of the SOAS China Institute.
fredag 3. juli 2020
Britain's citizenship offer to Hong Kong: how China could respond
China has responded angrily to a UK promise to offer nearly 3 million residents of Hong Kong with British national overseas status (BNO), the right to settle in the UK. China’s foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said Britain would “bear all consequences”, and China’s ambassador to the UK later said that Beijing “reserve[d] the right to take corresponding measures”.
No further details were given, leaving it unclear if any response would be aimed at the UK or at the BNO passport holders, and when it might come. Some reaction is to be expected, however, given China’s increasingly aggressive international stance on issues from its border dispute with Indiato control of Hong Kong. “Beijing has to respond robustly because not doing so would make Xi [Jinping, China’s president] look weak domestically, and that is not an option,” said Prof Steve Tsang, director of the SOAS China Institute.
No further details were given, leaving it unclear if any response would be aimed at the UK or at the BNO passport holders, and when it might come. Some reaction is to be expected, however, given China’s increasingly aggressive international stance on issues from its border dispute with Indiato control of Hong Kong. “Beijing has to respond robustly because not doing so would make Xi [Jinping, China’s president] look weak domestically, and that is not an option,” said Prof Steve Tsang, director of the SOAS China Institute.
