{"id":24924,"date":"2020-11-19T12:43:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T03:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/19\/five-eyes-allies-call-on-china-to-reverse-ban-on-hong-kong-pro-democracy-legislators"},"modified":"2020-11-19T12:43:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T03:43:30","slug":"five-eyes-allies-call-on-china-to-reverse-ban-on-hong-kong-pro-democracy-legislators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24924","title":{"rendered":"Five Eyes allies call on China to reverse ban on Hong Kong pro-democracy legislators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign ministers from the UK, US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand say new rules in city are attempt to silence critics<\/p>\n<p>The Five Eyes intelligence sharing group has said China\u2019s imposition of new rules to disqualify elected legislators in Hong Kong appeared to be part of a campaign to silence critics and called on Beijing to reverse course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge the Chinese central authorities to re-consider their actions against Hong Kong\u2019s elected legislature and immediately reinstate the Legislative Council members,\u201d foreign ministers from Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/19\/five-eyes-allies-call-on-china-to-reverse-ban-on-hong-kong-pro-democracy-legislators\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign ministers from the UK, US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand say new rules in city are attempt to silence criticsThe Five Eyes intelligence sharing group has said China\u2019s imposition of new rules to disqualify elected legislators in Hong Kong ap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24924","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24925,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24924\/revisions\/24925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}