Support for Hong Kong crackdown by China sparks fury: HSBC bears brunt of backlash By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:10 BST, 4 June 2020 | Updated: 22:10 BST, 4 June 2020 HSBC and other British firms are facing a backlash for supporting Chinese national security laws in Hong Kong that critics say … Read more
British banks HSBC and Standard Chartered publicly voice their support for China’s national security law for Hong Kong Chinese parliament approved the controversial national security law in late May Two British banking giants have voiced their support for the law this week HSBC claimed to ‘respect and support laws’ in a post on Chinese social … Read more
Thousands of Hong Kong residents have defied a police ban and gathered to mark the 31st anniversary of China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown. Mourning ceremonies have been planned across the city after authorities blocked a mass vigil at a time of seething anger over a planned new security law. Black-clad citizens this evening broke through barricades … Read more
HSBC sides with China over Hong Kong: Bank publicly supports the controversial new national security law By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 3 June 2020 | Updated: 22:41 BST, 3 June 2020 HSBC has publicly supported the controversial new national security law which China is imposing on Hong Kong – putting … Read more
Boris Johnson has said he will have ‘no choice’ but to offer the people of Hong Kong citizenship if China erodes human rights in the former British colony. The Prime Minister said last night that a proposed new national security law in Hong Kong would ‘dramatically erode its autonomy’ and breach the terms of its … Read more
At last, our Government is displaying a backbone – and a sense of honour – in its dealings with the totalitarian Communist regime of Beijing. Interviewed by the BBC’s Andrew Marr yesterday, the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab declared that unless the Chinese Communist Party revoked its decision last week to apply its own tyrannical and … Read more
Britain offers passport holders in Hong Kong visa-free travel for up to 12 months after China rubber-stamps controversial national security law British Nationals (Overseas) do not have the automatic right to live or work in the UK, but can currently travel here without a visa for up to six months Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: China tightens the noose on Hong Kong with British firms in line to feel the squeeze By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 28 May 2020 | Updated: 22:12 BST, 28 May 2020 The worst fears of Hong Kong’s richest person Li Ka-shing, proprietor of trading behemoth Hutchison, are being … Read more
China passes national security law bill for Hong Kong amid international controversy after the US revokes the city’s ‘special status’ in protest The Chinese National People’s Congress passed the bill in Beijing this afternoon The law aims to ban secession, foreign interference and treason in Hong Kong By Billie Thomson For Mailonline Published: 08:10 BST, … Read more
President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that Hong Kong’s role as a global financial center would be put at risk of China insists on imposing a strict political crackdown – as his administrations offered to pay to relocate Hong Kong firms to the U.S. Trump economic advisor Larry Kudlow made the offer in comments about moving … Read more