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U.K. Willing To Admit Nearly 3 Million From Hong Kong If China Adopts Security Law

Boris Johnson wrote in a Times of London column that the law would infringe on the "one country, two systems" agreement China reached with Britain in 1997 when Britain ceded control of the territory.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, shown here leaving Downing Street in London on Wednesday, published a column in <em data-stringify-type="italic">The Times of London </em>urging China to rethink its proposed national security law.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday that he would be willing to allow more than 2.8 million people from Hong Kong to live and work in the U.K. if China implements a controversial proposed national security law on the former British

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