{"id":11305,"date":"2019-11-20T12:05:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T03:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/20\/hong-kong-anger-in-china-as-us-senate-passes-bill-protecting-protesters-rights"},"modified":"2019-11-20T13:45:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T04:45:37","slug":"hong-kong-anger-in-china-as-us-senate-passes-bill-protecting-protesters-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11305","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: anger in China as US Senate passes bill protecting protesters&#8217; rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing brands human rights bill, which Trump has yet to approve, a \u2018whitewash\u2019 as university standoff continues<\/p>\n<p>The US Senate has passed legislation aimed at protecting human rights in Hong Kong amid a crackdown on the pro-democracy movement, as dozens of protester spent a fourth day stranded in a university campus.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cHong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act\u201d will go to the House of Representatives, which approved its own version last month. The two chambers will have to work out their differences before any legislation can be sent to President Donald Trump for his consideration.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/20\/hong-kong-anger-in-china-as-us-senate-passes-bill-protecting-protesters-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing brands human rights bill, which Trump has yet to approve, a \u2018whitewash\u2019 as university standoff continuesThe US Senate has passed legislation aimed at protecting human rights in Hong Kong amid a crackdown on the pro-democracy movement, as dozens&#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":[41,50,48,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-us-news","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\/11305","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=11305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11321,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11305\/revisions\/11321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}