{"id":116412,"date":"2021-02-03T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=116412"},"modified":"2021-02-03T10:28:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:28:04","slug":"state-dept-considers-refugee-status-for-some-hongkongers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-dept-considers-refugee-status-for-some-hongkongers\/","title":{"rendered":"State Dept. considers refugee status for some Hongkongers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstate-dept-considers-refugee-status-for-some-hongkongers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=116412&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2364861\" style=\"width: 714px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2364861\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2364861\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/H-761x437.jpg\" alt width=\"704\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2364861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File- Anti-government demonstrators march in protest against the invocation of the emergency laws in Hong Kong. (REUTERS Photo\/Umit Bektas)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>\nUPDATED 7:15 AM PT \u2013 Wednesday, February 3, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The State Department recently announced the U.S. could provide refugee status to a limited number of Hong Kong dissidents. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/andrea-mitchell-reports\/watch\/secy-of-state-blinken-china-poses-the-most-significant-challenge-to-the-u-s-100353605713\">interview<\/a> Monday, department head Antony Blinken said Hong Kong dissidents are the victims of political persecution by the Chinese Communist Party and the U.S. must help them.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary added, Beijing has violated the 1997 agreement with Britain to uphold the freedoms of Hong Kong and must be held accountable. The U.K. and Australia are accepting all Hong Kong citizens fleeing political repression by Mainland China.<\/p>\n<p>However, Blinken suggested only a limited number of Hongkongers could move to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see people who are, again, in Hong Kong standing up for their own rights, the rights that they thought were guaranteed to them,\u201d he stated. \u201cAnd if they are the victims of repression from Chinese authorities, we should do something to give them haven.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecBlinken?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SecBlinken<\/a> recently joined <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mitchellreports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mitchellreports<\/a> for a discussion on topics including the protests in Russia, the United States\u2019 relationship with China, and investing in the State Department. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tryBZ0jPCp\">https:\/\/t.co\/tryBZ0jPCp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Department of State (@StateDept) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/1356618515088871436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At least five dissidents from Hong Kong have applied for political asylum in the U.S. so far, though their immigration prospects remain unclear.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/fein-discusses-whether-second-trump-impeachment-is-constitutional\/\">Fein discusses whether second Trump impeachment is constitutional<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File- Anti-government demonstrators march in protest against the invocation of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892528,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5020,4098,5023,5029,3772,5026],"class_list":["post-116412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-considers","tag-dept","tag-refugee","tag-some","tag-state","tag-status"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}