{"id":19867,"date":"2020-06-30T10:41:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T01:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/china-passes-controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law"},"modified":"2020-06-30T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T03:00:39","slug":"china-passes-controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19867","title":{"rendered":"China passes controversial Hong Kong national security law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say the measure, which criminalises secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces, erodes Hong Kong\u2019s autonomy<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has passed a sweeping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/21\/hong-kongs-security-laws-what-are-they-and-why-are-they-so-controversial\">national security law<\/a> for Hong Kong that critics fear will crush political freedoms and pave the way for China to cement its control over the semi-autonomous territory.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 40 days after Chinese lawmakers first proposed imposing an anti-sedition law on Hong Kong, the standing committee of the National People\u2019s Congress, on Tuesday approved the measure, according officials and multiple media reports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/china-passes-controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say the measure, which criminalises secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces, erodes Hong Kong\u2019s autonomyBeijing has passed a sweeping national security law for Hong Kong that critics fear will crush political freedoms&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"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":[50,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19867","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\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19867"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19913,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19867\/revisions\/19913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}