{"id":19761,"date":"2020-06-28T02:55:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/27\/hong-kong-fears-freedoms-will-end-as-new-law-looms"},"modified":"2020-06-28T02:55:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:55:04","slug":"hong-kong-fears-freedoms-will-end-as-new-law-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19761","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong fears freedoms will end as new law looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Beijing\u2019s sweeping security law set to pass this week, many protesters accept that \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 is over<\/p>\n<p>To Jennifer Tsui, the looming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/18\/china-tables-draft-hong-kong-security-law-in-sign-it-intends-to-rush-legislation\" title=\"\">national security law agreed last month by China\u2019s legislature<\/a> seems like the \u201creal\u201d return of Hong Kong to China.<\/p>\n<p>When Hong Kong reverted from British to Chinese sovereignty on 1 July 1997, Tsui, then a student, was apprehensive, but her worries were allayed when things appeared almost unchanged after the handover. Hongkongers were assured their lifestyle would remain unchanged until at least 2047 under the \u201cone country two systems\u201d policy guaranteed in the Sino-British joint declaration.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/27\/hong-kong-fears-freedoms-will-end-as-new-law-looms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Beijing\u2019s sweeping security law set to pass this week, many protesters accept that \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 is overTo Jennifer Tsui, the looming national security law agreed last month by China\u2019s legislature seems like the \u201creal\u201d return of Hong &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"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-19761","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\/19761","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19779,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19761\/revisions\/19779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}