{"id":21080,"date":"2020-07-28T17:52:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T08:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/28\/china-halts-hong-kong-extradition-treaties-with-canada-australia-uk"},"modified":"2020-07-28T21:31:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T12:31:14","slug":"china-halts-hong-kong-extradition-treaties-with-canada-australia-and-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21080","title":{"rendered":"China halts Hong Kong extradition treaties with Canada, Australia and UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tit-for-tat move follows measures by Ottawa, Canberra and London over new security law<\/p>\n<p>China has suspended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/hong-kong\">Hong Kong<\/a>\u2019s extradition treaties with Canada, Australia, and the UK, in a tit-for-tat move after similar decisions by those countries over its controversial new security law.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, China\u2019s ministry of foreign affairs said Hong Kong was suspending criminal assistance agreements, including extradition, accusing those countries of \u201cpoliticising judicial cooperation\u201d. Canada, Australia and the UK cancelled extradition agreements with the semi-autonomous territory after Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law that critics fear will be used against government critics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/28\/china-halts-hong-kong-extradition-treaties-with-canada-australia-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tit-for-tat move follows measures by Ottawa, Canberra and London over new security lawChina has suspended Hong Kong\u2019s extradition treaties with Canada, Australia, and the UK, in a tit-for-tat move after similar decisions by those countries over its con&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,319,48,4,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/21080","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21095,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21080\/revisions\/21095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}