{"id":39946,"date":"2021-12-20T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T05:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/20\/pro-beijing-candidates-sweep-hong-kong-patriots-only-elections"},"modified":"2021-12-20T23:44:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T14:44:48","slug":"pro-beijing-candidates-sweep-hong-kong-patriots-only-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39946","title":{"rendered":"West raises concerns after pro-Beijing candidates sweep Hong Kong elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain, US and allies fear \u2018erosion of democratic elements\u2019 as legislative elections marred by record low turnout<\/p>\n<p>Britain, the US and other western allies have expressed \u201cgrave concern\u201d over the \u201cerosion of democratic elements\u201d in Hong Kong, hours after pro-Beijing candidates were confirmed to occupy nearly every seat in the former British colony\u2019s new legislature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, the foreign ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, and the United States secretary of state, noting the outcome of the legislative council elections in Hong Kong, express our grave concern over the erosion of democratic elements of the special administrative region\u2019s electoral system,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/foreign-secretary-issues-joint-statement-with-international-partners-on-hong-kong-elections-20-december-2021\">the joint statement<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/20\/pro-beijing-candidates-sweep-hong-kong-patriots-only-elections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain, US and allies fear \u2018erosion of democratic elements\u2019 as legislative elections marred by record low turnoutBritain, the US and other western allies have expressed \u201cgrave concern\u201d over the \u201cerosion of democratic elements\u201d in Hong Kong, hours afte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2745,"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-39946","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\/39946","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\/2745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39958,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39946\/revisions\/39958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}