{"id":18551,"date":"2020-05-22T14:05:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T05:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/22\/fear-and-fighting-spirit-in-hong-kong-as-china-rams-through-security-law"},"modified":"2020-05-22T14:05:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T05:05:47","slug":"fear-and-fighting-spirit-in-hong-kong-as-china-rams-through-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18551","title":{"rendered":"Fear and fighting spirit in Hong Kong as China &#8216;rams through&#8217; security law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s push to impose legislation is seen as fresh rallying point for an anti-government movement that had lost focus<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kongers entered fight or flight mode on Friday, reacting with shock and anger to the Chinese parliament\u2019s push to impose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/21\/hong-kongs-security-laws-what-are-they-and-why-are-they-so-controversial\">national security laws<\/a> in the territory. While some vowed to fight against a move they fear will effectively end the international business hub\u2019s autonomy, others planned to flee.<\/p>\n<p>China announced on Thursday night that it would \u201cestablish and improve a legal framework and mechanism for safeguarding national security\u201d in Hong Kong by legislating in the National People\u2019s Congress, effectively bypassing the territory\u2019s own legislature.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/22\/fear-and-fighting-spirit-in-hong-kong-as-china-rams-through-security-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s push to impose legislation is seen as fresh rallying point for an anti-government movement that had lost focusHong Kongers entered fight or flight mode on Friday, reacting with shock and anger to the Chinese parliament\u2019s push to impose nation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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-18551","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\/18551","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18579,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18551\/revisions\/18579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}