The South China Morning Post reports
Possible action by China to bar BN(O) passport owners from holding public office in Hong Kong
Beijing’s retaliation plans against London offering Hongkongers holding British National (Overseas) passports a pathway to the right of abode boil down to making public officers with such documents prove their loyalty, analysts have said.
earlier this week that the central government was mulling banning those who hold the status from serving in the local administration.
It underscored Beijing’s determination to yield full compliance from the Hong Kong government officials, some of whom it had grown to distrust, a social science scholar and a lawyer said.
Politicians and commentators from the pro-establishment camp, meanwhile, pointed out that another retaliatory move Beijing was said to be contemplating against BN(O) holders who moved to Britain – namely, stripping them of the right to vote in local elections – would have the more desirable effect of penalising all those who took advantage of the special status, not just civil servants.
Read their full article at https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3118028/national-security-law-beijings-retaliation-against-londons
