South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “US offers temporary ‘safe haven’ for Hongkongers in response to crackdown on opposition” – below is their description.
Thousands of Hong Kong residents are now eligible for temporary “safe haven” in the US under an order signed by President Joe Biden on August 5, 2021. The move was in response to Beijing’s crackdown on opposition lawmakers and activists after the national security law was imposed last year.
Hongkongers in the US who qualify will be granted the right to stay and work for 18 months, and restrictions on F-1 student visa holders may also be suspended.
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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”.