{"id":10778,"date":"2019-11-05T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T05:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/05\/chinas-xi-jinping-expresses-high-degree-of-trust-in-hong-kongs-carrie-lam"},"modified":"2019-11-06T00:01:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:01:16","slug":"chinas-xi-jinping-expresses-high-degree-of-trust-in-hong-kongs-carrie-lam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10778","title":{"rendered":"China signals desire to bring Hong Kong under tighter control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing issues strongly-worded warning it will not tolerate \u2018any actions that split the country\u2019<\/p>\n<p>China has issued unusually tough warnings for Hong Kong, signalling a desire to bring the semi-autonomous city under tighter control, and \u201cperfect\u201d its governance of the territory, after five months of increasingly violent protests.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Communist party, in a statement issued after a meeting of key leaders, said national interest should take priority over the \u201ctwo systems\u201d policy that has allowed Hong Kong extensive autonomy since the handover from British colonial rule, and warned that it would not tolerate \u201cany actions that split the country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/05\/chinas-xi-jinping-expresses-high-degree-of-trust-in-hong-kongs-carrie-lam\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing issues strongly-worded warning it will not tolerate \u2018any actions that split the country\u2019China has issued unusually tough warnings for Hong Kong, signalling a desire to bring the semi-autonomous city under tighter control, and \u201cperfect\u201d its gove&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[41,555,50,48,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10794,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions\/10794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}