{"id":10113,"date":"2019-10-14T10:56:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T01:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/14\/threatening-china-will-end-in-crushed-bodies-says-xi-jinping-amid-hong-kong-protests"},"modified":"2019-10-14T22:41:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T13:41:41","slug":"threatening-china-will-end-in-crushed-bodies-says-xi-jinping-amid-hong-kong-protests-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10113","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests are at &#8216;life-threatening level&#8217;, say police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning follows another night of violent skirmishes between police and protesters in city<\/p>\n<p>Violent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have escalated to a \u201clife-threatening level\u201d, police have said, after a small bomb exploded and a police officer was stabbed in clashes overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Peaceful rallies descended into chaos in the Chinese-ruled city on Sunday with running skirmishes between protesters and police in shopping malls and on streets. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/13\/hope-and-desperation-inspired-hong-kong-anthem-says-composer\">Black-clad<\/a> activists threw 20 petrol bombs at one police station, while others trashed shops and metro stations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/14\/threatening-china-will-end-in-crushed-bodies-says-xi-jinping-amid-hong-kong-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning follows another night of violent skirmishes between police and protesters in cityViolent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have escalated to a \u201clife-threatening level\u201d, police have said, after a small bomb exploded and a police officer was st&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,555,50,48,241,80,61,42,49,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-nepal","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10113"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10147,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113\/revisions\/10147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}