{"id":19946,"date":"2020-07-01T22:32:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T13:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/jul\/01\/china-is-breaking-hong-kong-treaty-with-uk-says-boris-johnson"},"modified":"2020-07-01T22:32:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T13:32:20","slug":"china-is-breaking-hong-kong-treaty-with-uk-says-boris-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19946","title":{"rendered":"China is breaking Hong Kong treaty with UK, says Boris Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM denounces new security law and promises bespoke visa for 2.9 million Hongkongers<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson denounced China\u2019s imposition of a security law on Hong Kong as a \u201cclear and serious\u201d violation of its treaty with Britain, vowing to introduce a bespoke five-year visa for as many as 2.9 million Hong Kong citizens with British national (overseas) status.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at prime minister\u2019s questions on Wednesday he said the law introduced by the Chinese government constituted a clear and serious breach of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, signed in 1984 and aimed at smoothing the transition when the territory was handed back to China in 1997.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/jul\/01\/china-is-breaking-hong-kong-treaty-with-uk-says-boris-johnson\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM denounces new security law and promises bespoke visa for 2.9 million HongkongersBoris Johnson denounced China\u2019s imposition of a security law on Hong Kong as a \u201cclear and serious\u201d violation of its treaty with Britain, vowing to introduce a bespoke fi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[41,531,50,319,48,4,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-boris-johnson","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-hong-kong","category-politics","category-uk-news","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\/19946","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19947,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19946\/revisions\/19947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}