{"id":20108,"date":"2020-07-05T02:10:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T17:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/jul\/04\/what-chinas-new-security-law-means-for-hong-kong-video-explainer"},"modified":"2020-07-05T02:10:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T17:10:17","slug":"what-chinas-new-security-law-means-for-hong-kong-video-explainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20108","title":{"rendered":"What China&#8217;s new security law means for Hong Kong &ndash; video explainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing has imposed sweeping new national security legislation on Hong Kong, criminalising &#8216;secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces&#8217;. Critics fear the law will enable a crackdown on protest and dissent as China seeks to exert new levels of control over the semi-autonomous territory. The Guardian&#8217;s Beijing bureau chief, Lily Kuo, explains what this means for the city after a year of unrest<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jul\/01\/the-guardian-view-on-hong-kong-still-fighting\">The Guardian view on Hong Kong: still fighting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/04\/hongkongers-on-chinas-crackdown-i-feel-helpless-and-hopeless\">Hongkongers on China&#8217;s crackdown: &#8216;I feel helpless and hopeless&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/03\/hong-kong-journalists-and-lawyers-scramble-to-adapt-to-security-law\">Hong Kong journalists and lawyers scramble to adapt to security law<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/jul\/04\/what-chinas-new-security-law-means-for-hong-kong-video-explainer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing has imposed sweeping new national security legislation on Hong Kong, criminalising &#8216;secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces&#8217;. Critics fear the law will enable a crackdown on protest and dissent as China seeks to exert&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1425,"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-20108","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\/20108","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\/1425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20218,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20108\/revisions\/20218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}