{"id":72751,"date":"2025-07-04T14:27:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T05:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/04\/hong-kong-code-of-conduct-sincerely-support-beijing"},"modified":"2025-07-04T14:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T05:27:41","slug":"hong-kong-code-of-conduct-will-oblige-legislators-to-sincerely-support-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72751","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong code of conduct will oblige legislators to \u2018sincerely support\u2019 Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal is latest in a series of rules and legislation that have cracked down on the city\u2019s pro-democracy movement<\/p>\n<p>A new code of conduct in Hong Kong will require legislators to \u201csincerely support\u201d Beijing\u2019s jurisdiction on the city and the chief executive, and prohibits anything that might \u201cvilify\u201d the government.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal for the new code, introduced on Wednesday, included tiered penalties for legislators who breach the code, including suspension without payment for the most serious offences.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/04\/hong-kong-code-of-conduct-sincerely-support-beijing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal is latest in a series of rules and legislation that have cracked down on the city\u2019s pro-democracy movementA new code of conduct in Hong Kong will require legislators to \u201csincerely support\u201d Beijing\u2019s jurisdiction on the city and the chief execu&#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":[50,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72751","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=72751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72752,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72751\/revisions\/72752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}