Nearly 30,000 Hongkongers apply to move to UK

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The number of people planning to move to the UK from Hong Kong has accelerated as Beijing intensifies its clampdown on the former British colony.

Downing Street said 27,000 Hongkongers have now applied to a visa scheme which opened at the end of January, offering a route out of the Asian city. Reports last month suggested only 5,000 people applied for the visa in the first two weeks of the programme.

Last week the UK declared China in “a state of ongoing non-compliance” with the 1984 Sino-British joint declaration, which was meant to guarantee a high degree of autonomy for Hong Kong after it returned to the mainland in 1997 following British rule.

Foreign secretary Dominic Raab said Beijing’s plan to restrict participation in Hong Kong elections represented a further breach of the legally-binding declaration.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hong-kong-visa-applicants-uk-194304465.html

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1. The US needs to get our share

We lost too many to British Columbia after the turnover to China. We need to aggressively reach out to Hong Kong residents to get them to come to the US.