{"id":351716,"date":"2021-03-30T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T20:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=351716"},"modified":"2021-03-30T16:15:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T20:15:28","slug":"beijing-tightens-grip-on-hong-kong-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beijing-tightens-grip-on-hong-kong-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Tightens Grip on Hong Kong Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbeijing-tightens-grip-on-hong-kong-legislature%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=351716&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4587.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party cemented its control over Hong Kong&#8217;s elections on Tuesday, approving rules that will effectively ban pro-democracy candidates from running for public office.<\/p>\n<p>Under the law, any candidate will have to seek&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/03\/05\/973921684\/beijing-prepares-hong-kong-election-laws-further-erasing-freedoms\">approval<\/a>&nbsp;from a Beijing-controlled qualification review board in order to seek election. The board will reportedly work with China&#8217;s Ministry of State Security to vet prospective candidates and determine if they are sufficiently &#8220;patriotic&#8221; for public office.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in National Security<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0 \">\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/beijing-tightens-grip-on-hong-kong-legislature\/\"><strong>Beijing Tightens Grip on Hong Kong Legislature<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-upholds-trump-action-on-taiwan\/\"><strong>U.S. Ambassador Visits Taiwan for First Trip Since 1979<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/cornell-students-call-to-stop-new-china-partnership\/\"><strong>Cornell Students Call to Halt China Partnership<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chinese officials have clarified that &#8220;patriotism&#8221; in this context is defined by devotion to the CCP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we talk about patriotism, we are not talking about the abstraction of loving a cultural or historical China, but rather loving the currently existing People&#8217;s Republic of China under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party,&#8221; Song Ru&#8217;an, deputy commissioner of China&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong, said last week,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/11\/asia\/china-hong-kong-election-reform-intl-hnk\/index.html\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The new laws also expand the number of seats on Hong Kong&#8217;s legislature from 70 to 90, while significantly reducing the ratio of publicly elected spots. The public will be permitted to elect just 20 members; another 30 will be elected by pro-Beijing trade and industry groups, and 40 will be chosen by a Beijing-dominated &#8220;Election Committee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The electoral changes were approved unanimously by the Standing Committee of the National People&#8217;s Congress. The new rules were expected to go into effect as part of China&#8217;s ongoing crackdown on Hong Kong&#8217;s relative autonomy and individual freedoms. Beijing&#8217;s violent suppression of speech rights\u2014under the guise of &#8220;national security&#8221; laws\u2014prompted widespread protests in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All candidates in the Hong Kong Legislative Council elections now have to be vetted by the National Security Bureau,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathanlawkc\/status\/1376825112201166851?s=20\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;Nathan Law, a London-based Hong Kong democracy activist, on Twitter. &#8220;There will be no opposition voice in the council hereafter. 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