British media: Beijing requires Hong Kong politics and business people to abandon fore

(London News) British media reported that Beijing requested Hong Kong's political and business people to abandon foreign passports, otherwise they could not be elected as representatives of the National People's Congress of China.

The British Financial Times quoted a new representative, a former representative of the National People's Congress, and a person who understood the selection process as the above statement, and said that at least one plan to seek re -election is a representative of the Hong Kong District National People's Congress, because he holds British national overseas passports (BNO) cannot be elected as the new representative.

A total of 36 representatives of the National People's Congress of the Hong Kong District.

Prior to December of last year, Tan Huizhu, deputy director of the Hong Kong Basic Law Committee, said that those holding BNO or foreign passports can participate in the election of the Hong Kong District People's Congress as long as they meet the identity of Chinese citizenship and established conditions.However, the Financial Times quoted a representative of a predecessor that the information conveyed by Beijing was that either you gave up BNO or you gave up as a representative of the National People's Congress.

A representative of a Hong Kong -People's Congress believes that Beijing's concerns can be understood because the Hong Kong people's congress representatives are one of the most important institutions in the country.

Holding a foreign passport or travel certificate constitutes a national security threat

Liu Zhaoli, vice president of the National Hong Kong and Macau Research Association, said that holding foreign passports or travel documents also constitutes a national security threat.He said that China ’s national security is increasingly threatened by the United States and Western countries, and the British owner allows BNO to apply for residency and eventually obtain British citizenship, which will involve the loyalty of the representatives of the Hong Kong people’ s congress.

After the anti -repair storm in 2019, the British government accepted the Hong Kong people who held the BNO passport in 2021 to apply for the UK, and expanded the BNO visa plan in 2022, allowing young Hong Kong to use their parents' BNO to apply to the UK.During this period, more than 160,000 Hong Kong people applied for British citizenship, of which at least 105,200 people had arrived in the UK.