{"id":30362,"date":"2021-03-30T16:07:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T07:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/30\/hong-kong-china-brings-in-voting-system-changes"},"modified":"2021-03-30T23:30:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:30:39","slug":"beijing-cuts-hong-kongs-directly-elected-seats-in-radical-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30362","title":{"rendered":"Beijing cuts Hong Kong&#8217;s directly elected seats in radical overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Measures are passed to increase Beijing\u2019s control of city, including vetting of election candidates<\/p>\n<p>China has passed sweeping changes to Hong Kong\u2019s electoral system that tighten Beijing\u2019s grip on the city, while leaving a facade of democratic structures in place.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has amended Hong Kong\u2019s Basic Law, or constitution, to almost halve the proportion of directly elected representatives in the city\u2019s legislature, which already had limited powers, and require all candidates to be vetted for political loyalty.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/30\/hong-kong-china-brings-in-voting-system-changes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measures are passed to increase Beijing\u2019s control of city, including vetting of election candidatesChina has passed sweeping changes to Hong Kong\u2019s electoral system that tighten Beijing\u2019s grip on the city, while leaving a facade of democratic structure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"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-30362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/30362","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\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30406,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30362\/revisions\/30406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}