{"id":45929,"date":"2022-07-01T11:32:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T02:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/01\/hong-kong-25-years-handover-uk-us-criticise-erosion-of-rights-and-freedoms"},"modified":"2022-07-01T17:28:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T08:28:41","slug":"xi-jinping-swears-in-new-hong-kong-leader-on-25th-anniversary-of-handover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45929","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping hails China\u2019s rule over Hong Kong on 25th anniversary of handover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese president says \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 will endure and democracy flourishes after unprecedented unpicking of freedoms<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2022\/jul\/01\/25th-anniversary-of-the-handover-of-hong-kong-in-pictures\">25th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong \u2013 in pictures<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/01\/we-were-too-lenient-on-pro-democracy-politicians-says-senior-hong-kong-mp-regina-ip\">We were too lenient on pro-democracy politicians \u2013 Regina Ip<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/30\/the-hong-kong-unofficials-who-advised-britain-on-the-handover-and-were-ignored\">The \u2018unofficials\u2019 who advised UK on handover \u2013 and were ignored<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/from-the-archive-blog\/2017\/jul\/01\/hong-kong-handover-china-timeline-1997-20\">Timeline: the Hong Kong handover<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Xi Jinping has hailed China\u2019s rule over Hong Kong as he led 25th anniversary celebrations of the city\u2019s handover from Britain, insisting democracy was flourishing despite a political crackdown that has silenced dissent.<\/p>\n<p>After swearing in a new hardline chief executive, John Lee, in a solemn ceremony on Friday morning, the Chinese president laid out his vision for the city and its administrators.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/01\/hong-kong-25-years-handover-uk-us-criticise-erosion-of-rights-and-freedoms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese president says \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 will endure and democracy flourishes after unprecedented unpicking of freedoms25th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong \u2013 in picturesWe were too lenient on pro-democracy politicians \u2013 Regina IpThe \u2018&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[2003,41,531,50,457,48,2351,52,45,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antony-blinken","category-asia-pacific","category-boris-johnson","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","category-hong-kong","category-liz-truss","category-uk-news","category-us-foreign-policy","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45929","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45941,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45929\/revisions\/45941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}