London has reacted angrily to Beijing’s threat to stop recognising the British National (Overseas) passport as a valid travel document, a proposed reprisal against the Western nation for offering Hongkongers a pathway to citizenship.Officials on Wednesday warned President Xi Jinping’s administration that carrying out such a threat would be “in direct contravention” of the Sino-British Joint Declaration signed by both sides ahead of the city’s return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.The British…

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