The UK may suspend its extradition agreement with Hong Kong, in a further deterioration of relations with China.
It’s understood that may be among measures to be announced by the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab. It’s in response to China’s new security law in Hong Kong, which could allow dissidents to be sent from the former British colony to mainland China.
The Foreign Office has also criticised Bejing over human rights abuses against its Muslim Uighur population.
Beijing’s Ambassador to the UK has threatened that China will retaliate and has accused Downing Street of “dancing to the tune” of the United States.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Caroline Hawley,
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.
