{"id":17773,"date":"2020-05-02T15:54:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T06:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/02\/hong-kong-calls-foreign-criticism-of-crackdown-on-pro-democracy-figures-irresponsible"},"modified":"2020-05-02T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T06:54:02","slug":"hong-kong-calls-foreign-criticism-of-crackdown-on-pro-democracy-figures-irresponsible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17773","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong calls foreign criticism of crackdown on pro-democracy figures &#8216;irresponsible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s government calls allegations from the US, UK and European parliament \u2018totally unfounded\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong government has accused foreign politicians of being ignorant and irresponsible after they criticised its recent crackdown on pro-democracy figures and accused Beijing of \u201cflagrant breaches\u201d of Hong Kong\u2019s autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>While it did not name anyone, the Hong Kong government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/eng\/2020\/05\/20200501\/20200501_161220_598.html\">statement<\/a> on Friday said allegations voiced by \u201ccertain officials and politicians\u201d from the US, UK and European Parliament were \u201ctotally unfounded and amounted to a serious intervention in Hong Kong\u2019s affairs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/02\/hong-kong-calls-foreign-criticism-of-crackdown-on-pro-democracy-figures-irresponsible\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s government calls allegations from the US, UK and European parliament \u2018totally unfounded\u2019The Hong Kong government has accused foreign politicians of being ignorant and irresponsible after they criticised its recent crackdown on pro-democracy&#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":[41,50,221,48,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-hong-kong","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773","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=17773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17776,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773\/revisions\/17776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}