{"id":18789,"date":"2020-05-29T11:49:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T02:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/29\/hong-kong-crisis-china-support-police-warns-us-interfere-trump"},"modified":"2020-05-29T22:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T13:00:37","slug":"hong-kong-crisis-china-pledges-to-support-territorys-police-as-us-warned-not-to-interfere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18789","title":{"rendered":"China threatens &#8216;countermeasures&#8217; against UK over Hong Kong crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing describes US efforts to raise controversial security law with UN as \u2018pointless\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has responded with defiance to international criticism of its Hong Kong national security law, threatening countermeasures against the UK and the US and describing Washington\u2019s efforts to raise the issue at the UN security council as \u201cpointless\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One day after Beijing\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/28\/china-vote-npc-national-security-laws-hong-kong-us-protest\">legislature approved plans to move ahead with sweeping anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong,<\/a> foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian warned countries that Hong Kong is \u201cpurely an internal Chinese matter\u201d and that \u201cno other country has the right to interfere\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/29\/hong-kong-crisis-china-support-police-warns-us-interfere-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing describes US efforts to raise controversial security law with UN as \u2018pointless\u2019Beijing has responded with defiance to international criticism of its Hong Kong national security law, threatening countermeasures against the UK and the US and desc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,50,48,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/18789","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18813,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18789\/revisions\/18813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}