{"id":75613,"date":"2025-12-14T20:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T11:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/14\/hong-kong-opposition-democratic-party-disbands-chinese-pressure"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T11:19:04","slug":"hong-kongs-last-major-opposition-party-disbands-amid-chinese-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75613","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s last major opposition party disbands amid Chinese pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior DP members previously allege being told to disband or face severe consequences including possible arrest<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s last major opposition party has disbanded after a vote by its members, the culmination of Chinese pressure on the city\u2019s remaining liberal voices in a years-long security crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic party (DP) has been Hong Kong\u2019s main opposition since its founding three years before the financial hub\u2019s return to Chinese rule in 1997. The party used to sweep city-wide legislative elections and push China on democratic reforms and upholding freedoms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/14\/hong-kong-opposition-democratic-party-disbands-chinese-pressure\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior DP members previously allege being told to disband or face severe consequences including possible arrestHong Kong\u2019s last major opposition party has disbanded after a vote by its members, the culmination of Chinese pressure on the city\u2019s remainin&#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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75613","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\/75613","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=75613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75614,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75613\/revisions\/75614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}