Australia offered thousands of Hongkongers “safe haven visas,” or pathways to permanent residency, last summer in response to the city’s national security law, which stripped Hong Kong of its limited civil liberties. Wong told the Australian Financial Review in July 2020 that he welcomed the country’s offer. … [Read more...] about Report: Hong Kong Protest Leader Joshua Wong’s Family Flees to Australia
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Hong Kong: Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab tells China to ‘step back from the brink’
He added: "If China follows through with its proposed legislation, we will put in place new arrangements to allow BNOs to come to the UK without the current six-month limit, enabling them to live and apply to study and work for extendable periods of 12 months, thereby also providing a pathway to citizenship." … [Read more...] about Hong Kong: Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab tells China to ‘step back from the brink’
HSBC and StanChart voice support for China’s Hong Kong security law
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Pompeo says China’s policies on Muslims amount to ‘genocide’
China has imprisoned more than 1 million people, including Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups, in a vast network of concentration camps, according to U.S. officials and human rights groups. People have been subjected to torture, sterilization and political indoctrination in addition to forced labor as part of an assimilation campaign in a region whose inhabitants are ethnically and culturally distinct from the Han Chinese majority. … [Read more...] about Pompeo says China’s policies on Muslims amount to ‘genocide’
China Counters Trump Administration Sanctions, Takes Parting Shots at Mike Pompeo
Last week, Pompeo announced through the State Department website that six mainland Chinese and Hong Kong officials had been added to the U.S. sanctions list over the mass arrest of more than 50 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong earlier this month. … [Read more...] about China Counters Trump Administration Sanctions, Takes Parting Shots at Mike Pompeo
