{"id":29297,"date":"2021-03-05T14:28:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T05:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/05\/china-unveils-hong-kong-electoral-reform-as-beijing-tightens-grip"},"modified":"2021-03-06T00:37:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:37:39","slug":"china-unveils-hong-kong-electoral-changes-as-beijing-tightens-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29297","title":{"rendered":"China unveils Hong Kong electoral changes as it tightens grip on city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only \u2018patriots\u2019 will be allowed to stand for election, and democratic representation will be reduced<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s top lawmaking body has formally unveiled plans to ensure that only \u201cpatriots\u201d can govern Hong Kong, as Beijing tightens its grip on the city with electoral changes including a vetting process for all parliamentary candidates.<\/p>\n<p>In an annual \u201cwork report\u201d delivered on Friday to Beijing\u2019s most important political meeting, Premier Li Keqiang swore to \u201cresolutely guard against and deter\u201d interference by external forces, amid growing international alarm at Beijing\u2019s attacks on pro-democracy voices.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/05\/china-unveils-hong-kong-electoral-reform-as-beijing-tightens-grip\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only \u2018patriots\u2019 will be allowed to stand for election, and democratic representation will be reducedChina\u2019s top lawmaking body has formally unveiled plans to ensure that only \u201cpatriots\u201d can govern Hong Kong, as Beijing tightens its grip on the city wit&#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":[41,50,556,48,892,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-chinese-economy","category-hong-kong","category-li-keqiang","category-taiwan","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\/29297","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=29297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29325,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29297\/revisions\/29325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}