Hong Kong activist Nathan Law reveals he has applied for political asylum in Britain
- Ex-lawmaker, who has been in self-imposed exile in London for six months, says he wants to ‘sound an alarm’ on Communist Party threat to democratic values
- Law finds London ‘exciting and welcoming’ and there are shared cultural roots and signs that make him ‘feel calm and blessed’
Hong Kong activist and former opposition lawmaker Nathan Law Kwun-chung has applied for political asylum in Britain, six months after he went into self-imposed exile in London.
In an opinion piece published on Monday in British newspaper The Guardian, Law revealed that he had submitted “an application for asylum” in Britain.
Law, who felt Britain and Europe had not stood firmly enough against Beijing, said his move was also related to “the West’s strategy for countering the authoritarian expansion of China”. Too many people “laboured under the fantasy that China would be a strategic partner to the West, perhaps even one part of the democratic world”, he said.
“The process of awakening from this illusion takes time. In the [United States], adopting an assertive approach to China and positioning it as one of the country’s greatest enemies is a bipartisan consensus now,” he wrote.
