{"id":19981,"date":"2020-07-02T13:50:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T04:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/02\/china-sanctions-approved-by-us-house-as-pelosi-calls-hong-kong-security-law-horrific"},"modified":"2020-07-02T13:50:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T04:50:36","slug":"china-sanctions-approved-by-us-house-as-pelosi-calls-hong-kong-security-law-horrific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19981","title":{"rendered":"China sanctions approved by US House as Pelosi calls Hong Kong security law &#8216;horrific&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Bill could go before Donald Trump as early as Thursday, amid calls for a strong action against China over Hong Kong crackdown<\/p>\n<p>The US House of Representatives on Wednesday joined the Senate in approving a bill to rebuke China over its crackdown in Hong Kong by imposing sanctions on groups that undermine the city\u2019s autonomy or restrict its freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>The bill targets police units that have cracked down on Hong Kong protesters, as well as Chinese Communist party officials responsible for imposing a strict \u201cnational security\u201d law on Hong Kong, which is considered a special administrative region within China and maintains its own governing and economic systems.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/02\/china-sanctions-approved-by-us-house-as-pelosi-calls-hong-kong-security-law-horrific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Bill could go before Donald Trump as early as Thursday, amid calls for a strong action against China over Hong Kong crackdownThe US House of Representatives on Wednesday joined the Senate in approving a bill to rebuke China over its crackdown in Hong &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,50,48,47,631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-us-news","category-us-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19981","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19982,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19981\/revisions\/19982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}