Several hundred protesters rallied outside the British consulate on Sunday to demand they receive a full British passport.
Last year, declassified files revealed that Britain even pressured Portugal repeatedly not to grant rights to citizens of Macau before it handed the region back to China, fearing that it would increase the pressure to grant Hong Kong similar rights.
A protester says she is planning to renew her BN(O) passport in case of a crackdown by Beijing, even though she doesn’t want to leave her home. She says she is expecting Britain to give her residency as it might help her to get somewhere else
