{"id":29710,"date":"2021-03-13T15:10:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T06:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/13\/hong-kong-g7-calls-on-china-to-end-oppression-of-democratic-values"},"modified":"2021-03-13T15:10:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T06:10:28","slug":"hong-kong-g7-calls-on-china-to-end-oppression-of-democratic-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29710","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: G7 calls on China to end &#8216;oppression&#8217; of democratic values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US and others condemn move to allow only those loyal to Beijing to serve in Hong Kong\u2019s parliament<\/p>\n<p>Foreign ministers in the G7 group of nations, including the United States, have expressed grave concerns at what they said was China\u2019s decision to fundamentally erode democratic elements of the electoral system in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/hong-kong\">Hong Kong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The G7 released a statement that was tweeted by British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, saying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/11\/china-adopts-new-laws-to-ensure-only-patriots-can-govern-hong-kong\">recent decision to change Hong Kong\u2019s electoral system<\/a> indicated that authorities in China were determined to eliminate dissenting voices and opinions in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/13\/hong-kong-g7-calls-on-china-to-end-oppression-of-democratic-values\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US and others condemn move to allow only those loyal to Beijing to serve in Hong Kong\u2019s parliamentForeign ministers in the G7 group of nations, including the United States, have expressed grave concerns at what they said was China\u2019s decision to fundame&#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":[50,637,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-g7","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\/29710","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=29710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29711,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29710\/revisions\/29711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}