{"id":19955,"date":"2020-07-01T19:08:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T10:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/01\/hong-kongs-security-laws-usher-in-new-era-of-chinese-control"},"modified":"2020-07-01T19:08:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T10:08:37","slug":"hong-kongs-security-laws-usher-in-new-era-of-chinese-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19955","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong&#8217;s security laws usher in new era of Chinese control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s new rules appear tailored to cover the actions of protesters and their supporters<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jul\/01\/hong-kong-protests-china-security-law-carrie-lam\">Hong Kong protests &#8211; latest developments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Beijing has imposed a raft of national security rules on Hong Kong, ushering in a new chapter of Chinese control over the semi-autonomous territory once known as a haven of political freedom and civil liberty.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese and Hong Kong officials have said the law would target only a \u201cnarrow set\u201d of behaviours, but the full text of the legislation \u2013 released only after it was enacted late on Tuesday \u2013 shows it covers a broad range of activities under vaguely defined crimes related to security. The harshest penalties are life in prison.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/01\/hong-kongs-security-laws-usher-in-new-era-of-chinese-control\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s new rules appear tailored to cover the actions of protesters and their supportersHong Kong protests &#8211; latest developmentsBeijing has imposed a raft of national security rules on Hong Kong, ushering in a new chapter of Chinese control over the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[41,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/19955","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19956,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19955\/revisions\/19956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}