{"id":24661,"date":"2020-11-11T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/11\/an-own-goal-experts-question-resignation-of-hong-kong-lawmakers"},"modified":"2020-11-11T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T13:53:00","slug":"an-own-goal-experts-question-resignation-of-hong-kong-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24661","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;An own goal&#8217;: experts question resignation of Hong Kong lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mass resignation after ousting of four \u2018unpatriotic\u2019 legislators leaves council with no opposition members<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Hong Kong\u2019s legislature will look remarkably more like its counterpart in mainland China. It will sit without any opposition lawmakers after they announced their resignations in protest at four colleagues disqualified from the body on Wednesday under a new power granted to Hong Kong authorities by Beijing to dismiss \u201cunpatriotic\u201d politicians with immediate effect. <\/p>\n<p>The 70-member legislative council will then consist of only pro-Beijing lawmakers, turning into what several observers have described as a rubber-stamping body like China\u2019s National People\u2019s Congress (NPC), which passes pre-approved measures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/11\/an-own-goal-experts-question-resignation-of-hong-kong-lawmakers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass resignation after ousting of four \u2018unpatriotic\u2019 legislators leaves council with no opposition membersOn Thursday, Hong Kong\u2019s legislature will look remarkably more like its counterpart in mainland China. It will sit without any opposition lawmaker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1682,"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":[41,50,48,86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-law","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\/24661","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\/1682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24662,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24661\/revisions\/24662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}