{"id":3099,"date":"2020-07-21T11:42:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T11:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2020-07-21T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T11:42:23","slug":"chinas-new-national-security-law-is-already-chilling-free-speech-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3099","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s new national security law is already chilling free speech in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The \u201cone country, two systems\u201d principle \u2014 enshrined in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-49633862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Basic Law<\/a>, Hong Kong\u2019s de facto constitution \u2014 has been in place ever since Britain handed back control of the territory to China in 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/5\/21\/21266419\/hong-kong-china-national-security-law-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vox\u2019s Jen Kirby explains<\/a>, \u201cThe \u2018one country\u2019 part means [Hong Hong] is officially part of China, while the \u2018two systems\u2019 part gives it a degree of autonomy, including rights like freedom of the press that are absent in mainland China. China is supposed to abide by this arrangement until 2047, but it has been eroding those freedoms and trying to bring Hong Kong more tightly under its control for years.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Beijing\u2019s imposition of this new national security law is the most direct and dramatic move China has made toward erasing those freedoms once and for all.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2020\/7\/1\/21309990\/china-hong-kong-national-security-law-protests-arrests\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2020\/7\/1\/21309990\/china-hong-kong-national-security-law-protests-arrests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The \u201cone country, two systems\u201d principle \u2014 enshrined in the Basic Law, Hong Kong\u2019s de facto constitution \u2014 has been in place ever since Britain handed back control of the territory to China in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>As Vox\u2019s Jen Kirby explains, \u201cThe \u2018one country\u2019 part means [Hong Hong] is officially part of China, while the \u2018two systems\u2019 part gives it a degree of autonomy, including rights like freedom of the press that are absent in mainland China. China is supposed to abide by this arrangement until 2047, but it has been eroding those freedoms and trying to bring Hong Kong more tightly under its control for years.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beijing\u2019s imposition of this new national security law is the most direct and dramatic move China has made toward erasing those freedoms once and for all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,581],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3100,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions\/3100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}