{"id":33575,"date":"2021-06-30T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T07:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/30\/hong-kong-legal-system-should-reflect-china-will-says-official"},"modified":"2021-06-30T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T07:46:09","slug":"hong-kongs-courts-should-reflect-chinas-will-says-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33575","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s courts should reflect China\u2019s will, says official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statement seen as warning to judiciary to uphold Beijing\u2019s interests or risk losing independence<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s judicial system should reflect the will and interests of the Chinese nation, a senior official overseeing the national security law has said.<\/p>\n<p>The comments have been interpreted as a clear instruction from Beijing that Hong Kong\u2019s once-vaunted court system is now expected to operate in the interests of the central government in Beijing, rather than the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/30\/hong-kong-legal-system-should-reflect-china-will-says-official\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement seen as warning to judiciary to uphold Beijing\u2019s interests or risk losing independenceHong Kong\u2019s judicial system should reflect the will and interests of the Chinese nation, a senior official overseeing the national security law has said.The&#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-33575","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\/33575","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=33575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33576,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33575\/revisions\/33576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}