{"id":10768,"date":"2019-11-04T11:11:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T02:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/04\/hong-kong-protests-chinese-state-media-urges-tougher-stance-on-wanton-violence"},"modified":"2019-11-04T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T02:11:09","slug":"hong-kong-protests-chinese-state-media-urges-tougher-stance-on-wanton-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10768","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: Chinese state media urges tougher stance on &#8216;wanton violence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China Daily newspaper accuses protesters of being at mercy of hormones, and venting anger \u2018at grievances real and imagined\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Chinese state media on Monday urged authorities to take a \u201ctougher line\u201d against protesters in Hong Kong who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/03\/chinas-news-agency-condemns-attack-on-its-hong-kong-office-as-barbaric\">vandalised the office of the state-run Xinhua news agency<\/a> and other buildings at the weekend, saying the violence damaged the city\u2019s rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>In an editorial, state-backed China Daily newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/201911\/03\/WS5dbed052a310cf3e355751c4.html\">criticised the \u201cwanton\u201d attacks<\/a> by \u201cnaive\u201d demonstrators, adding: \u201cThey are doomed to fail simply because their violence will encounter the full weight of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/04\/hong-kong-protests-chinese-state-media-urges-tougher-stance-on-wanton-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Daily newspaper accuses protesters of being at mercy of hormones, and venting anger \u2018at grievances real and imagined\u2019Chinese state media on Monday urged authorities to take a \u201ctougher line\u201d against protesters in Hong Kong who vandalised the offic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,50,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10768","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10769,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10768\/revisions\/10769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}