{"id":9168,"date":"2021-01-16T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118028\/national-security-law-beijings-retaliation-against-londons"},"modified":"2021-01-16T14:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T14:00:18","slug":"national-security-law-beijings-retaliation-against-londons-bno-pathway-down-to-loyalty-test-for-hong-kong-public-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/national-security-law-beijings-retaliation-against-londons-bno-pathway-down-to-loyalty-test-for-hong-kong-public-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"National security law: Beijing\u2019s retaliation against London\u2019s BN(O) pathway \u2018down to loyalty test\u2019 for Hong Kong public officers"},"content":{"rendered":"Beijing\u2019s plans to retaliate against London\u2019s 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\u2019s exclusive report earlier this week that the central government was mulling\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118028\/national-security-law-beijings-retaliation-against-londons\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s plans to retaliate against London\u2019s 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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":924,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9329,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9168\/revisions\/9329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}