{"id":150490,"date":"2020-07-01T15:55:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T13:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/01\/hong-kong-protests-more-than-300-arrested-as-security-law-comes-in-uk-opens-pathway-to-citizenship\/"},"modified":"2020-07-01T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T13:55:28","slug":"hong-kong-protests-more-than-300-arrested-as-security-law-comes-in-uk-opens-pathway-to-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=150490","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: more than 300 arrested as security law comes in; UK opens pathway to citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police use water cannon and pepper spray as people take to the streets to protest new security law introduced by ChinaProtesters arrested on first day of Hong Kong\u2019s hated new lawsAnalysis: security laws usher in new era of Chinese controlHow are you being affected by protests in Hong Kong? 2.55pm BST Scenes from Hong Kong\u2019s streets 2.26pm BST Lord Patten, Hong Kong\u2019s last British governor before the 1997 handover, has described the new security law as Orwellian. \u201cHeaven knows how it will affect the ability of journalists to report what\u2019s happening in Hong Kong,\u201d he told BBC Radio 4\u2019s World at One. The big game starts now \u2013 what we\u2019ve seen from China is a doubling down in their aggressive and loutish behaviour all around the world and we\u2019ve really got to work\u2026 with allies, not to start a cold war but to form a group of countries who will say: \u2018if you behave in this appalling fashion, China, we\u2019re going to call you out.\u2019You can lock up people, you can\u2019t lock up ideas. I still believe that the belief in freedom and the rule of law is going to have a longer lifespan than Xi Jinping\u2019s extremely unpleasant, dictatorial, totalitarian communism.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jul\/01\/hong-kong-protests-china-security-law-carrie-lam\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong protests: more than 300 arrested as security law comes in; UK opens pathway to citizenship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police use water cannon and pepper spray as people take to the streets to protest new security law introduced by ChinaProtesters arrested on first day of Hong Kong\u2019s hated new lawsAnalysis: security laws usher in new era of Chinese controlHow are you being affected by protests in Hong Kong? 2.55pm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}