{"id":3255,"date":"2021-03-14T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2021-03-14T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T12:30:06","slug":"chinese-ambassador-to-us-defends-plan-to-bar-unpatriotic-candidates-in-hong-kong-and-says-concerns-about-democracy-are-unnecessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=3255","title":{"rendered":"Chinese ambassador to US defends plan to bar \u2018unpatriotic\u2019 candidates in Hong Kong and says concerns about democracy are \u2018unnecessary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostChina\u2019s ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai has said concerns over the erosion of Hong Kong\u2019s democracy are \u201ccompletely unnecessary\u201d.In an opinion piece for the South China Morning Post on Sunday, the ambassador defended an overhaul of the city\u2019s electoral system that critics fear will freeze out dissenting voices.A resolution rubber-stamped by the National People\u2019s Congress last week will effectively shut out opposition members deemed \u201cunpatriotic\u201d and change the means by which the\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3125398\/chinese-ambassador-us-defends-plan-bar-unpatriotic-candidates-hong-kong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostChina\u2019s ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai has said concerns over the erosion of Hong Kong\u2019s democracy are \u201ccompletely unnecessary\u201d.In an opinion piece for the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}