{"id":12237,"date":"2019-12-18T12:43:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T03:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/18\/xi-jinping-visits-macau-for-handover-anniversary-as-nearby-hong-kong-seethes"},"modified":"2019-12-18T12:43:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T03:43:52","slug":"xi-jinping-visits-macau-for-handover-anniversary-as-nearby-hong-kong-seethes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12237","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping visits Macau for handover anniversary as nearby Hong Kong seethes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visit by Chinese president is widely seen as a reward for Macau\u2019s stability and loyalty, in contrast with Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s President Xi Jinping has begun a three-day visit to the gambling hub of Macau to mark the 20th anniversary of its handover to China, with security tight as protests rock nearby Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s visit to the former Portuguese colony, where he is expected to announce a slew of supportive policies, is widely seen as a reward for Macau\u2019s stability and loyalty, unlike the former British colony of Hong Kong, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/14\/second-death-in-hong-kong-protests-as-xi-demands-end-to-violence\">which has seen six months of anti-government protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/18\/xi-jinping-visits-macau-for-handover-anniversary-as-nearby-hong-kong-seethes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit by Chinese president is widely seen as a reward for Macau\u2019s stability and loyalty, in contrast with Hong KongChina\u2019s President Xi Jinping has begun a three-day visit to the gambling hub of Macau to mark the 20th anniversary of its handover to Chi&#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":[41,50,48,584,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-macau","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\/12237","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=12237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12238,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions\/12238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}