{"id":37026,"date":"2021-09-19T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T02:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/19\/hong-kong-elite-vote-patriots-only-election-process"},"modified":"2021-09-19T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T02:45:35","slug":"puppet-showmen-hong-kong-elite-vote-in-patriots-only-election-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37026","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Puppet showmen\u2019: Hong Kong elite vote in \u2018patriots only\u2019 election process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The formation of the election committee on Sunday is the first poll to be held under the patriots rule imposed by Beijing<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s political elite begin selecting a powerful committee on Sunday that will choose nearly half the legislature \u2013 and later a new leader \u2013 under a new \u201cpatriots only\u201d system imposed by Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The first poll under that new system, dubbed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/30\/hong-kong-china-brings-in-voting-system-changes\">patriots rule Hong Kong<\/a>\u201d, will take place on Sunday as members of the city\u2019s ruling classes choose a 1,500-seat election committee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/19\/hong-kong-elite-vote-patriots-only-election-process\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The formation of the election committee on Sunday is the first poll to be held under the patriots rule imposed by BeijingHong Kong\u2019s political elite begin selecting a powerful committee on Sunday that will choose nearly half the legislature \u2013 and later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-37026","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\/37026","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37027,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37026\/revisions\/37027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}