{"id":29630,"date":"2021-03-11T18:29:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T09:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/11\/china-adopts-new-laws-to-ensure-only-patriots-can-govern-hong-kong"},"modified":"2021-03-11T18:29:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T09:29:29","slug":"china-adopts-new-laws-to-ensure-only-patriots-can-govern-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29630","title":{"rendered":"China adopts new laws to ensure only &#8216;patriots&#8217; can govern Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab accuses Beijing of hollowing out the space for democratic debate <\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s rubber stamping parliamentary body has unanimously \u2013 bar one abstention and to sustained and loud applause \u2013 approved new laws ensuring that only people it deems \u201cpatriots\u201d can govern Hong Kong, in a move critics say signals the end of the city\u2019s remaining autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>The final meeting of the National People\u2019s Congress (NPC) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/03\/two-sessions-china-political-elite-descend-on-beijing-amid-global-tensions\">the annual \u201ctwo sessions\u201d political gathering<\/a> also approved new domestic amendments and budgets, and the 14th five-year-plan, intended to strengthen and expand China\u2019s domestic technology industry and market, and reach new GDP and population targets amid economic uncertainty and declining birth rates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/11\/china-adopts-new-laws-to-ensure-only-patriots-can-govern-hong-kong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab accuses Beijing of hollowing out the space for democratic debate China\u2019s rubber stamping parliamentary body has unanimously \u2013 bar one abstention and to sustained and loud applause \u2013 approved new laws ensuring that only&#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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/29630","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=29630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29631,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29630\/revisions\/29631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}