China to Stop Recognizing Special U.K. Passports for Hong Kongers
The move was in retaliation for Britain’s offer to grant potentially millions of Hong Kong residents a path to citizenship, amid Beijing’s crackdown on the city.
Tensions between Britain and China have been escalating over the fate of Hong Kong.Credit.Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times
Published Jan. 29, 2021Updated Feb. 23, 2021
HONG KONG China announced on Friday that it would no longer recognize certain British travel documents, in retaliation for Britain’s decision last year to grant potentially millions of Hong Kong residents visas and eventually a path to citizenship.
Covid-19: Over Two Million Around the World Have Died From the Virus
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Feb. 21, 2021, 11:24 a.m. ETFeb. 21, 2021, 11:24 a.m. ET President-elect Joe Biden plans a big vaccination push, despite limited supplies. The C.D.C. warns that the new variant could send U.S. infections skyrocketing.
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Two million dead.
It is more people than call the state of Nebraska home and about equal to the population of Slovenia. It is roughly as many people who are estimated to have died in the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. And it is more than the total number killed in the decades of Soviet and U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan combined.
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China-E.U. Talks Hit Another Snag as Biden Camp Objects
Beijing and Brussels were on the brink of an agreement to roll back restrictions on investment. But the deal’s fate is uncertain amid growing animosity toward China and increasingly vocal opposition.
A worker on an assembly line at the Volkswagen electric vehicle plant in Shanghai. A pact would give companies like Daimler and Volkswagen better control over their operations in China.Credit.Aly Song/Reuters
China and the European Commission appeared close this week to announcing a landmark agreement that would make it easier for their companies to invest in each other’s economies. Then it hit another snag: A tweet by a top aide to Joseph R. Biden Jr. signaled that the president-elect was not happy about the deal.