{"id":7951,"date":"2019-08-28T14:55:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T05:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/28\/a-nuclear-option-hong-kong-and-the-threat-of-the-emergency-law"},"modified":"2019-08-28T14:55:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T05:55:43","slug":"a-nuclear-option-hong-kong-and-the-threat-of-the-emergency-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7951","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A nuclear option&#8217;: Hong Kong and the threat of the emergency law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say use of draconian law that would allow censorship, arrest and deportation could push city into bigger crisis<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong government\u2019s hint that it may use a draconian law to quell its biggest crisis in decades has sparked widespread concern, with analysts saying it would plunge the city into a worse crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s leader Carrie Lam<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/27\/hong-kong-protests-carrie-lam-rejects-claims-she-has-lost-control\"> said on Tuesday<\/a> the government will use existing laws to \u201cput a stop to violence and chaos\u201d, after the pro-Beijing newspaper Sing Tao Daily said the government was considering invoking the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, a colonial era law with sweeping powers that was last used in 1967, to put an end to the current political crisis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/28\/a-nuclear-option-hong-kong-and-the-threat-of-the-emergency-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say use of draconian law that would allow censorship, arrest and deportation could push city into bigger crisisThe Hong Kong government\u2019s hint that it may use a draconian law to quell its biggest crisis in decades has sparked widespread concer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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-7951","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\/7951","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7952,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions\/7952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}