UK top choice for Hongkongers fleeing amid Beijing s draconian security law ANI | Updated: Dec 18, 2020 16:25 IST
Hong Kong, December 18 (ANI): As the Chinese Communist Party continues to impose the draconian National Security Law (NSL), the UK comes across as an easy path to citizenship, according to Midland Immigration Consultancy.
According to the South China Morning Post, the data from midland shows that the proportion of Hong Kong people considering a move to the UK has surged to 84 per cent of total emigration enquiries this year. The number of Hongkongers who liked the UK showed the largest increase because the threshold for Britain is the lowest among [choices like] Australia, Canada, said Tina Cheng, senior strategy director at Midland. Hong Kong people simply holding BN(O) can apply to move to England, with almost no other requirement than living there for a period of time.
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The Changing Status of Hong Kong as a Global Financial Center
The Changing Status of Hong Kong as a Global Financial Center December 18, 2020 Posted by China Briefing Reading Time: 4 minutes
Op-Ed by Mark Preen
In recent years, Hong Kong and its economy have experienced turbulence. The territory’s real GDP contracted by 1.2 percent in 2019, following the impact of anti-government protests, and the IMF projects that Hong Kong’s economy will contract by a whopping 7.5 percent in 2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak. In response to the protests, Beijing enacted a National Security Law in June of this year. While the impact of COVID-19 is likely to be short to medium-term, the region’s sociopolitical tensions have raised concerns about the long-term economic credibility of Hong Kong, including its status as a global financial center.
Countering China’s crackdown on Hong Kong Issue Brief by Anna Downs and Ash Jain
A police officer raises his pepper spray handgun as he detains a man during a march against the national security law at the anniversary of Hong Kong s handover to China from Britain in Hong Kong, China July 1, 2020. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
This Issue Brief was prepared for the Free World Commission and was co-authored by
Anna Downs, graduate student researcher, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, and
Ash Jain, senior fellow in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.
The views expressed in this publication represent those solely of the authors and are not intended to imply any endorsement of the content by members of the Free World Commission.
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