{"id":18615,"date":"2020-05-23T17:48:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T08:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/23\/chris-patten-chinas-security-laws-a-betrayal-of-hong-kong-people"},"modified":"2020-05-23T17:48:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T08:48:40","slug":"chris-patten-chinas-security-laws-a-betrayal-of-hong-kong-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18615","title":{"rendered":"Chris Patten: China&#8217;s security laws a betrayal of Hong Kong people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last governor of former British colony says UK must stand up to Beijing rather than kowtow<\/p>\n<p>China has betrayed the people of Hong Kong and the UK has a moral, economic and legal duty to stand up for them, Chris Patten, the last governor of the former British colony, has said.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing is set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/may\/22\/china-foisting-anti-sedition-law-hong-kong-freedoms\">impose new national security legislation<\/a> on Hong Kong after a sustained campaign of pro-democracy protests last year in the city, which enjoys many freedoms not allowed on mainland China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/23\/chris-patten-chinas-security-laws-a-betrayal-of-hong-kong-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last governor of former British colony says UK must stand up to Beijing rather than kowtowChina has betrayed the people of Hong Kong and the UK has a moral, economic and legal duty to stand up for them, Chris Patten, the last governor of the former Bri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1337,"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":[41,50,954,319,48,4,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-chris-patten","category-foreign-policy","category-hong-kong","category-politics","category-uk-news","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\/18615","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\/1337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18616,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615\/revisions\/18616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}