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National security law: Beijing’s retaliation against London’s BN(O) pathway ‘down to loyalty test’ for Hong Kong public officers
Beijing’s plans to retaliate against London’s move to offer British National (Overseas) passport holders a pathway to the right of abode boil down to making public officers with such documents prove their loyalty, analysts have said.Civil servants and other officials could soon find themselves faced with a hard choice between keeping their BN(O) passports and keeping their jobs, they said, responding to the Post’s exclusive report earlier this week that the central government was mulling…