{"id":13164,"date":"2020-01-23T09:19:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T00:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/23\/from-loo-roll-to-dumplings-hong-kong-protesters-weaponise-purchasing-power"},"modified":"2020-01-23T09:19:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T00:19:09","slug":"from-loo-roll-to-dumplings-hong-kong-protesters-weaponise-purchasing-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13164","title":{"rendered":"From loo roll to dumplings: Hong Kong protesters weaponise purchasing power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018yellow economic circle\u2019 movement aims to promote locally owned businesses \u2013 and shun Chinese ones<\/p>\n<p>Emily Mak works in finance but every lunchtime in the run-up to lunar new year on Saturday she heads to a bustling Hong Kong market street to distribute <em>lai see<\/em> packets to customers who have ordered them online.<\/p>\n<p>Her packets \u2013 red envelopes used to hold a traditional new year gift of money for children \u2013 are emblazoned with pro-democracy messages. The profits of the more than 20,000 packets she has sold will be donated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/15\/children-of-the-revolution-the-hong-kong-youths-ready-to-sacrifice-everything\">young protesters experiencing hardship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/23\/from-loo-roll-to-dumplings-hong-kong-protesters-weaponise-purchasing-power\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018yellow economic circle\u2019 movement aims to promote locally owned businesses \u2013 and shun Chinese onesEmily Mak works in finance but every lunchtime in the run-up to lunar new year on Saturday she heads to a bustling Hong Kong market street to distribu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13164","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13165,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13164\/revisions\/13165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}