{"id":29185,"date":"2021-03-03T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/03\/two-sessions-china-political-elite-descend-on-beijing-amid-global-tensions"},"modified":"2021-03-03T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T03:00:05","slug":"two-sessions-china-expected-to-unveil-new-controls-on-hong-kong-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29185","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Two sessions&#8217;: China expected to unveil new controls on Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delegates descend on capital for week of pomp and pageantry including unveiling of 14th five-year plan<\/p>\n<p>China is expected to unveil new political controls on Hong Kong at this week\u2019s meeting of its rubber-stamp parliament, which is also likely to showcase President Xi Jinping\u2019s further consolidation of power.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing plans to ensure only \u201cpatriots\u201d \u2013 Communist party loyalists \u2013 can run Hong Kong, according to a speech by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/22\/china-official-hints-at-electoral-reform-to-ensure-patriots-run-hong-kong\">a top Chinese official<\/a> ahead of the annual meeting of the National People\u2019s Congress (NPC).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/03\/two-sessions-china-political-elite-descend-on-beijing-amid-global-tensions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delegates descend on capital for week of pomp and pageantry including unveiling of 14th five-year planChina is expected to unveil new political controls on Hong Kong at this week\u2019s meeting of its rubber-stamp parliament, which is also likely to showcas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1972,"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":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29185","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\/1972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29188,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29185\/revisions\/29188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}