{"id":26414,"date":"2021-01-07T00:32:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/british-politicians-urge-eu-to-drop-china-deal-after-hong-kong-arrests"},"modified":"2021-01-07T00:32:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:32:25","slug":"china-misled-world-on-hong-kong-security-law-says-dominic-raab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26414","title":{"rendered":"China &#8216;misled world&#8217; on Hong Kong security law, says Dominic Raab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International criticism mounts after arrests of 53 people, as EU urged to drop economic deal with China<\/p>\n<p>The British foreign secretary has accused China of deliberately misleading the world when it passed its new security law in Hong Kong last year in the wake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/dozens-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-arrested-in-sweeping-crackdown\">latest crackdown<\/a> on the opposition in the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Dominic Raab reiterated the UK\u2019s offer to holders of British national (overseas) passports in the city to come and live in Britain, and said: \u201cThe mass arrest of politicians and activists in Hong Kong is a grievous attack on Hong Kong\u2019s rights and freedoms as protected under the joint declaration,\u201d which set out the terms of the return of the territory from the UK to China in 1997.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/british-politicians-urge-eu-to-drop-china-deal-after-hong-kong-arrests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International criticism mounts after arrests of 53 people, as EU urged to drop economic deal with ChinaThe British foreign secretary has accused China of deliberately misleading the world when it passed its new security law in Hong Kong last year in th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[41,50,954,221,530,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-chris-patten","category-europe","category-european-union","category-hong-kong","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\/26414","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26416,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26414\/revisions\/26416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}