{"id":11003,"date":"2019-11-12T15:12:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T06:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/12\/hong-kong-unprecedented-violence-police-shooting-fire-tear-gas"},"modified":"2019-11-12T21:15:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T12:15:06","slug":"hong-kong-protesters-converge-on-financial-centre-after-day-of-unprecedented-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11003","title":{"rendered":"Protesters are pushing Hong Kong to brink of collapse, say police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riot police fire teargas and demonstrators throw petrol bombs as city is paralysed for second day<\/p>\n<p>Police in Hong Kong have accused protesters of bringing the city to the \u201cbrink of total collapse\u201d and urged residents not to support them as demonstrations paralysed the city for a second day in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Riot police fired teargas on anti-government demonstrators gathered in Hong Kong\u2019s central business district and several universities on Tuesday. Protesters built street barricades, set fires and threw petrol bombs, chairs and other objects at police during another day of strikes demanding greater democracy in the Chinese territory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/12\/hong-kong-unprecedented-violence-police-shooting-fire-tear-gas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riot police fire teargas and demonstrators throw petrol bombs as city is paralysed for second dayPolice in Hong Kong have accused protesters of bringing the city to the \u201cbrink of total collapse\u201d and urged residents not to support them as demonstrations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":625,"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":[41,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003","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\/625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11019,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003\/revisions\/11019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}