{"id":18662,"date":"2020-05-24T17:59:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T08:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/24\/beijing-to-impose-hong-kong-security-laws-without-delay"},"modified":"2020-05-24T17:59:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T08:59:22","slug":"beijing-to-impose-hong-kong-security-laws-without-delay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18662","title":{"rendered":"Beijing to impose Hong Kong security laws &#8216;without delay&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China says it will rush through anti-sedition law as police fire teargas at protesters<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has vowed to force controversial national security laws on Hong Kong \u201cwithout the slightest delay\u201d as police in the semi-autonomous territory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/24\/hong-kong-protests-unauthorised-rally-police-china-laws\">fired teargas<\/a> at protesters demonstrating against the unprecedented decision.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Beijing, China\u2019s foreign minister, Wang Yi, said enacting the proposed anti-sedition law to stop anti-government protests that have persisted for the past year had become a \u201cpressing obligation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/24\/beijing-to-impose-hong-kong-security-laws-without-delay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China says it will rush through anti-sedition law as police fire teargas at protestersBeijing has vowed to force controversial national security laws on Hong Kong \u201cwithout the slightest delay\u201d as police in the semi-autonomous territory fired teargas at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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-18662","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\/18662","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18663,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18662\/revisions\/18663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}