{"id":18553,"date":"2020-05-22T13:31:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T04:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/22\/chinas-national-security-law-ban-subversion-and-separatism-hong-kong"},"modified":"2020-05-22T13:31:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T04:31:12","slug":"hong-kong-crisis-china-presents-security-laws-banning-subversion-and-separatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18553","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong crisis: China presents security laws banning subversion and separatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Details emerge of security laws Beijing wants to impose, overriding territory\u2019s constitution and prompting threat of US retaliation<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s proposal for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/21\/china-proposes-controversial-national-security-law-for-hong-kong\">imposing new national security laws<\/a> on Hong Kong would force the territory to quickly enact legislation that would bar subversion, separatism and other acts against the central government, it has emerged one day after Beijing\u2019s surprise announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The Communist party\u2019s efforts to impose a national security law has been widely interpreted as a move to fully take control over the territory, wracked by pro-democracy protests for the last year. Critics say it will effectively erase the \u201cone country, two systems\u201d framework that is meant to grant Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/22\/chinas-national-security-law-ban-subversion-and-separatism-hong-kong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details emerge of security laws Beijing wants to impose, overriding territory\u2019s constitution and prompting threat of US retaliationChina\u2019s proposal for imposing new national security laws on Hong Kong would force the territory to quickly enact legislat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1330,"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-18553","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\/18553","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\/1330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18581,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18553\/revisions\/18581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}