{"id":17942,"date":"2020-05-06T18:23:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T09:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/06\/china-calls-hong-kong-protesters-a-political-virus"},"modified":"2020-05-06T18:23:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T09:23:34","slug":"china-calls-hong-kong-protesters-a-political-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17942","title":{"rendered":"China calls Hong Kong protesters a &#8216;political virus&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing escalates rhetoric as it is accused of using coronavirus as cover to \u2018turn screws\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s top political office in Hong Kong has called protesters a \u201cpolitical virus\u201d and said the semi-autonomous city will never be calm until \u201cpoisonous\u201d and \u201cviolent\u201d black-clad demonstrators are eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>The warning on Wednesday by China\u2019s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office (HKMAO) said the central government in Beijing would not sit idly by with \u201cthis recklessly demented force\u201d in place, referring to the protest movement which has shaken Hong Kong since last June and sometimes drawn millions to the street.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/06\/china-calls-hong-kong-protesters-a-political-virus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing escalates rhetoric as it is accused of using coronavirus as cover to \u2018turn screws\u2019Beijing\u2019s top political office in Hong Kong has called protesters a \u201cpolitical virus\u201d and said the semi-autonomous city will never be calm until \u201cpoisonous\u201d and \u201c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,50,1069,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/17942","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17943,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17942\/revisions\/17943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}