{"id":19459,"date":"2020-06-18T18:28:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T09:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/18\/china-tables-draft-hong-kong-security-law-in-sign-it-intends-to-rush-legislation"},"modified":"2020-06-18T20:31:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T11:31:19","slug":"china-tables-draft-hong-kong-security-law-in-sign-it-intends-to-rush-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19459","title":{"rendered":"China tables draft Hong Kong security law in sign it intends to rush legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draft resolution clarifying four major offences put before top lawmaking body, state media reports<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has tabled a draft of the Hong Kong national security laws before its top lawmaking body, indicating it intends to rush through the contentious legislation which promises to drastically increase Chinese control over the semi-autonomous region.<\/p>\n<p>State media reported the draft law was put before the standing committee of the National People\u2019s Congress (NPC), charged with drafting the law, for a three-day session beginning on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/18\/china-tables-draft-hong-kong-security-law-in-sign-it-intends-to-rush-legislation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draft resolution clarifying four major offences put before top lawmaking body, state media reportsBeijing has tabled a draft of the Hong Kong national security laws before its top lawmaking body, indicating it intends to rush through the contentious le&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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-19459","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\/19459","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19473,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19459\/revisions\/19473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}