{"id":24792,"date":"2020-11-15T08:07:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T23:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/14\/hong-kong-politicians-face-pro-democracy-exodus"},"modified":"2020-11-15T08:07:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T23:07:22","slug":"hong-kong-politicians-face-pro-democracy-exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24792","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong politicians face pro-democracy exodus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Beijing tightens its grip, opposition groups fear that their support base is dwindling<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s battered pro-democracy opposition faces a bleak political future after a week that saw the entire bloc <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/11\/china-pro-democracy-hong-kong-lawmakers-opposition-oust\" title=\"\">resign from the city\u2019s legislature <\/a>to protest at the ousting of four members for \u201cunpatriotic\u201d conduct under a new law.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities have signalled that those who walked out may not be able to stand in future elections on the grounds their protest was itself unpatriotic and therefore bars them from office, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rthk.hk\/radio\/radio3\/programme\/backchat\" title=\"\">Sin Chung-kai<\/a>, a member of the Democratic party executive board, told the broadcaster RTHK.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/14\/hong-kong-politicians-face-pro-democracy-exodus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Beijing tightens its grip, opposition groups fear that their support base is dwindlingHong Kong\u2019s battered pro-democracy opposition faces a bleak political future after a week that saw the entire bloc resign from the city\u2019s legislature to protest at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","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\/24792","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24793,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24792\/revisions\/24793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}