{"id":34028,"date":"2021-07-13T19:04:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T10:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/13\/china-bans-pro-democracy-candidates-in-macau-elections"},"modified":"2021-07-13T19:04:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T10:04:30","slug":"china-bans-pro-democracy-candidates-in-macau-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34028","title":{"rendered":"China bans pro-democracy candidates in Macau elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move mirrors crackdown in Hong Kong and comes despite pledges the territory would have high levels of autonomy<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s crackdown on pro-democracy politicians in Hong Kong appears to have spread to Macau, where 21 candidates, including veteran legislators, have been disqualified from forthcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p>Most of those disqualified have vowed to challenge the ruling by the territory\u2019s electoral commission, warning that Beijing and pro-Beijing authorities are \u201cchanging the deal\u201d they have with Macau, despite its \u201cstability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/13\/china-bans-pro-democracy-candidates-in-macau-elections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move mirrors crackdown in Hong Kong and comes despite pledges the territory would have high levels of autonomyChina\u2019s crackdown on pro-democracy politicians in Hong Kong appears to have spread to Macau, where 21 candidates, including veteran legislator&#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":[41,50,584,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-macau","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\/34028","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=34028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34029,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34028\/revisions\/34029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}