{"id":24686,"date":"2020-11-12T13:55:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T04:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/12\/hong-kong-and-china-could-face-fresh-us-sanctions-over-ousting-of-lawmakers"},"modified":"2020-11-12T17:53:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T08:53:48","slug":"hong-kong-and-china-could-face-fresh-us-sanctions-over-ousting-of-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24686","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong and China could face fresh US sanctions over ousting of lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington accuses Beijing of \u2018flagrant violation\u2019 of commitments and says one party, two systems ideal is \u2018now merely a fig leaf\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong and Chinese officials could face further sanctions from the United States over a new law that disqualified four pro-democracy legislators as \u201cunpatriotic\u201d and prompted a mass resignation by the pro-democracy caucus.<\/p>\n<p>The measure, passed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/11\/china-pro-democracy-hong-kong-lawmakers-opposition-oust\">China\u2019s highest legislative body on Wednesday<\/a>, bars anyone from Hong Kong\u2019s legislative council who supports independence, opposes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2020\/oct\/12\/academics-warn-of-chilling-effect-of-hong-kong-security-law\">the national security law<\/a>, refuses to recognise Beijing\u2019s sovereignty over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/hong-kong\">Hong Kong<\/a>, seeks help from \u201cforeign countries or foreign forces to interfere in the affairs of the region\u201d or commits \u201cother acts that endanger national security\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/12\/hong-kong-and-china-could-face-fresh-us-sanctions-over-ousting-of-lawmakers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington accuses Beijing of \u2018flagrant violation\u2019 of commitments and says one party, two systems ideal is \u2018now merely a fig leaf\u2019Hong Kong and Chinese officials could face further sanctions from the United States over a new law that disqualified four &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[50,48,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24686","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24699,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24686\/revisions\/24699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}