{"id":17194,"date":"2020-04-15T17:59:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T08:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/15\/china-official-hong-kong-luo-huining-pushes-national-security-law"},"modified":"2020-04-15T17:59:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T08:59:34","slug":"chinas-top-official-in-hong-kong-pushes-for-national-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17194","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s top official in Hong Kong pushes for national security law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luo Huining says region\u2019s pro-democracy movement is threat to \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 principle <\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s top official in Hong Kong has called for controversial national security laws shelved since 2003 to be passed as soon as possible to combat radical violence, foreign interference and pro-independence forces in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The comments, by the head of China\u2019s liaison office in Hong Kong, Luo Huining, come amid escalating accusations of overreach by Beijing into the city\u2019s legislative council and judiciary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/15\/china-official-hong-kong-luo-huining-pushes-national-security-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luo Huining says region\u2019s pro-democracy movement is threat to \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 principle Beijing\u2019s top official in Hong Kong has called for controversial national security laws shelved since 2003 to be passed as soon as possible to combat rad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17195,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17194\/revisions\/17195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}