{"id":62704,"date":"2024-03-20T21:18:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T12:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/20\/tighter-security-laws-may-sap-yet-more-foreign-investment-from-hong-kong"},"modified":"2024-03-20T21:18:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T12:18:12","slug":"tighter-security-laws-may-sap-yet-more-foreign-investment-from-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62704","title":{"rendered":"Tighter security laws may sap yet more foreign investment from Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest legislative crackdown on dissent and international collaboration likely to scare off some businesses, say critics<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong was once Asia\u2019s world city, a global financial hub and business gateway to China. But the passage of new national security laws is the latest sign that the door is closing.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/19\/hong-kong-new-national-security-law-dissent\">article 23 was unanimously passed<\/a> by Hong Kong\u2019s unicameral, opposition-free parliament. The law covers newly defined acts of treason, espionage, theft of state secrets, sedition and foreign interference.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/20\/tighter-security-laws-may-sap-yet-more-foreign-investment-from-hong-kong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest legislative crackdown on dissent and international collaboration likely to scare off some businesses, say criticsHong Kong was once Asia\u2019s world city, a global financial hub and business gateway to China. But the passage of new national security&#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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62704","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\/62704","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=62704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62716,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62704\/revisions\/62716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}