{"id":21072,"date":"2020-07-28T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T04:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/28\/new-zealand-suspends-hong-kong-extradition-treaty-over-china-national-security-law"},"modified":"2020-07-28T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T04:08:09","slug":"new-zealand-suspends-hong-kong-extradition-treaty-over-china-national-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21072","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand suspends Hong Kong extradition treaty over China national security law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese embassy criticises move as \u2018gross interference\u2019 and \u2018serious violation of international law\u2019<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong following China\u2019s imposition of a controversial national security law that gives it sweeping powers over the semi-autonomous region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Zealand can no longer trust that Hong Kong\u2019s criminal justice system is sufficiently independent from China,\u201d Winston Peters, New Zealand\u2019s foreign minister, said in a statement on Tuesday. \u201cIf China in future shows adherence to the \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 framework then we could reconsider this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/28\/new-zealand-suspends-hong-kong-extradition-treaty-over-china-national-security-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese embassy criticises move as \u2018gross interference\u2019 and \u2018serious violation of international law\u2019New Zealand has suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong following China\u2019s imposition of a controversial national security law that gives it swee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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":[41,48,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21073,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072\/revisions\/21073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}