A group[a] of at least six captive ravens are resident at the Tower of London. Their presence is traditionally believed to protect The Crown and the Tower; a superstition holds that “if the Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain with it.” It was said that at the execution of Anne Boleyn in 1536, “Even the ravens of the Tower sat silent and immovable on the battlements and gazed eerily at the strange scene. A Queen about to die!” Two ravens have been caught sneaking out of precincts of the Tower of London .
The two idiots rushed to London after hearing that “BNO holders are eligible for UK visas”. However, they were refused entry to the United Kingdom by border control when they entered the country, according to the UK Daily Mail 7. According to the UK’s Daily Mail 7, the two BNO passport holders had to apply for political asylum if they wanted to enter the UK, otherwise they would be sent back to Hong Kong.
In July, the British government announced the opening of “special visas” for BNO passport holders. From January 2021 onwards, Hong Kong people holding BNO passports would be granted five-year visas with the right to work and study in the UK, subject to meeting other criteria. Before the special visa comes into effect, BNO passport holders are still entitled to a 6-month visa-free entry into the UK as in the past. Therefore, under normal circumstances, the two Hong Kong nationals have the right to enter the UK, even though they are unable to work and pursue long-term studies for six months. Up to now, the UK border control has not given any reasonable explanation for refusing the entry of these two people into the UK. The UK Border Agency’s recommendation of “applying for political asylum” is not a good option for these two people, as they will not be able to work in the UK and their other rights to remain in the country will be affected once they enter as “political evaders”.
The first idiot to be refused entry flew to London immediately after the British Foreign Secretary announced a “special visa for BNO holders”. The UK Daily Mail revealed his conversation with the UK border checkpoint in his own words.
UK Border Control: If you are unable to enter the UK, we will send you back to your home country.
The person who was refused entry: Please don’t do that, please help me, because if I go back to Hong Kong, I will be in immediate danger.
The Hong Kong resident who was refused entry also told the border control that if he was deported, the Hong Kong government would charge him with “disloyalty” and he would even be arrested upon landing in Hong Kong.
Compared to the first BNO passport holder who was refused entry, the description of the second rejected person is even more exaggerated and dramatic from the reports and self-reports.
This person, who claimed to be working in the IT industry in Hong Kong, said that his grandfather was a secret agent of the Kuomintang (KMT) in Hong Kong and left his family some “secret documents against the Chinese Communist Party”, and that he came to the UK to escape danger.
The rejected man said he had sent them to some foreign intelligence agencies, but since Hong Kong’s National Security Law came into force, he had “destroyed all his copies” out of fear, and would not show them to anyone. Therefore, the report could not confirm the existence and contents of these documents.
Now, the latest Home Office announcement on entry requirements for BNO holders is that those who entered the UK before the “special visa route for BNO holders” was opened, but do not meet the immigration requirements, can only obtain a short term visa with severely restricted rights of abode.
In other words, if they cannot be allowed to enter the UK normally, they will have to return to Hong Kong and try to re-enter the UK in January next year if they wish to obtain a long term visa for the two BNO passport holders who have been refused entry to the UK.
Zhang Weiwei had a debate with Professor Timothy Ash, a senior scholar at the University of Oxford in the UK, on “China’s victory over the epidemic proves that the Chinese model is superior to the Western liberal model of democracy”, with Zhang on the positive side and Ash on the negative. In addition to the anti-epidemic model, they also discussed the Taiwan issue, the crisis of the Western model, and the global impact of the Chinese model. China is a fascinating story, and sometimes we achieve better communication by engaging!
Boris Johnson instructed officials to draw up plans to cut Huawei out of the network by 2023, is proposing a “D10″ club of democratic partners that would include the G7 nations, Australia, South Korea and India. Finland’s Nokia and Sweden’s Ericsson are Europe’s only current alternative options for supplying 5G equipment such as antennas and relay masts.
The UK could offer British National (Overseas) passport holders in Hong Kong a path to citizenship if China does not suspend plans for a security law in the territory, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says. There are 2.9m people in Hong Kong eligible for the passport.
There are 300,000 BNO passport holders in Hong Kong who already have the right to visit the UK for up to six months without a visa.
But the Home Office confirmed that the proposed new rights, allowing those eligible to spend 12 months in the UK without a visa, could be offered to anyone with BNO status as long as they applied for and were granted the passport – opening it up to 2.9m Hong Kong residents.
British National (Overseas) passports were issued to people in Hong Kong by the UK before the transfer of the territory to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. Raab said the six-month limit on stays in the UK for BNO holders would be scrapped.
“If China continues down this path and implements this national security legislation, we will remove that six month limit and allow those BNO passport holders to come to the UK and to apply to work and study for extendable periods of 12 months and that will itself provide a pathway to future citizenship,” he said.
This is so good, the best joke next to the Trump announcement.
Supercapacitors can charge almost instantly, and discharge enormous amounts of power if needed. They could completely erase the Achilles heel of electric vehicles – their slow charging times – if they could hold more energy. And now Chinese and British scientists say they’ve figured out a way to store 10 times more energy per volume than previous supercapacitors.
A team split between University College London and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released a study and proof of concept of a new supercapacitor design using graphene laminate films and concentrating on the spacing between the layers, the researchers discovering that they could radically boost energy density when they tailored the sizes of pores in the membranes precisely to the size of electrolyte ions.
Using this design, the team says it’s achieved a massive increase in volumetric energy density. Where “similar fast-charging commercial technology” tends to offer around 5-8 watt-hours per liter, this new design has been tested at a record 88.1 Wh/l. The team claims it’s “the highest ever reported energy density for carbon-based supercapacitors.”
