{"id":8969,"date":"2021-01-15T19:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T19:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/article\/3117982\/united-states-imposes-sanctions-six-pro-china-officials-over-hong-kong"},"modified":"2021-01-15T19:00:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T19:00:58","slug":"united-states-imposes-sanctions-on-six-pro-china-officials-over-hong-kong-mass-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/united-states-imposes-sanctions-on-six-pro-china-officials-over-hong-kong-mass-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"United States imposes sanctions on six pro-China officials over Hong Kong mass arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on six officials including Hong Kong\u2019s sole representative to China\u2019s top lawmaking body over mass arrests of pro-democracy activists in the financial hub.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in the latest in a slew of sanctions imposed in the final days of his term and following political violence in Washington, called the crackdown in Hong Kong \u201cappalling\u201d.\u201cWe condemn PRC actions that erode Hong Kong\u2019s freedoms and democratic processes and will\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/article\/3117982\/united-states-imposes-sanctions-six-pro-china-officials-over-hong-kong\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on six officials including Hong Kong\u2019s sole representative to China\u2019s top lawmaking body over mass arrests of pro-democracy activists in the financial hub.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in the latest in a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8970,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969\/revisions\/8970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}