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assports in foreign countries. Lu said that it would be a "matter of technicality" to differentiate between holders of BDTC passports
and passports granted under the nationality package. Persons
concerned might be asked to declare how they obtained their
passports or whether they had resided in Britain.
13.” Ji Pengfei said (in Peking on 10 April, according to the
Hong Kong Wen Wei Po) that Britain had produced the "Right of Abode
in Britain Scheme" and "Bill of Rights" without consultation with
the Chinese, and so they would not recognise these things. The "Right of Abode in Britain Scheme" would lead to "British people 'governing Hong Kong". The beneficiaries would stay in Hong Kong if
the situation there was favourable to them and would leave if it was
unfavourable; this would be no good for Hong Kong. J1 added that Hong Kong people were now being lured into taking full British citizenship and that this went against the JD.
14. A member of the Hong Kong delegation who had met Ji Pengfei
said (according to the Daily Telegraph of 17 April) that the
nationality package had shocked the Chinese leaders: "they never
expected full British nationality to be given to local people. When
they said earlier that it was Britain's own business in granting
British passports they were only talking about freedom to travel."
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