{"id":41207,"date":"2022-01-30T22:54:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T13:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/30\/hong-kong-says-commenting-on-covid-strategy-is-not"},"modified":"2022-01-30T22:54:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T13:54:06","slug":"hong-kong-says-commenting-on-covid-strategy-is-not-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41207","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong says commenting on Covid strategy is not illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government says \u2018general remarks\u2019 about its zero-Covid policy do not violate national security law<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Having discussions and making \u201cgeneral remarks\u201d about Hong Kong\u2019s coronavirus strategy is not illegal and does not violate the Chinese territory\u2019s national security law, the government has said as it grapples to control a rise in cases.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong has followed China in sticking to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/01\/china-zero-covid-strategy-beijing-policy-protecting-public-health-coronavirus\">zero-Covid policy<\/a> with the economic and psychological tolls rapidly rising, and measures becoming more draconian than those first implemented in 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/30\/hong-kong-says-commenting-on-covid-strategy-is-not\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government says \u2018general remarks\u2019 about its zero-Covid policy do not violate national security lawCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHaving discussions and making \u201cgeneral remarks\u201d about Hong Kong\u2019s coronavirus strategy is not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"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":[41,50,1066,48,2458,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-hong-kong","category-omicron-variant","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\/41207","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\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41208,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41207\/revisions\/41208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}