{"id":18084,"date":"2020-05-11T17:27:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T08:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/11\/carrie-lam-blames-hong-kong-education-system-for-fuelling-protests"},"modified":"2020-05-11T17:27:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T08:27:10","slug":"carrie-lam-blames-hong-kong-education-system-for-fuelling-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18084","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Lam blames Hong Kong education system for fuelling protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Beijing leader pledges to overhaul school system, after weekend of heavy-handed police action<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s pro-Beijing leader, Carrie Lam, has vowed to overhaul the city\u2019s education system, saying its liberal studies curriculum helped to fuel last year\u2019s violent pro-democracy protests.<\/p>\n<p>Her intervention follows a weekend of heavy-handed police responses to scattered protests across the city, with journalists pepper-sprayed and searched, at least 18 people injured, a 12-year-old student journalist detained, and an estimated 200 people arrested.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/11\/carrie-lam-blames-hong-kong-education-system-for-fuelling-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Beijing leader pledges to overhaul school system, after weekend of heavy-handed police actionHong Kong\u2019s pro-Beijing leader, Carrie Lam, has vowed to overhaul the city\u2019s education system, saying its liberal studies curriculum helped to fuel last ye&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"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":[41,555,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","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\/18084","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18085,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18084\/revisions\/18085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}