{"id":18145,"date":"2020-05-13T09:41:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T00:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/13\/the-stakes-are-higher-hong-kongs-battle-lines-redrawn-for-post-covid-protests"},"modified":"2020-05-13T09:41:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T00:41:12","slug":"the-stakes-are-higher-hong-kongs-battle-lines-redrawn-for-post-covid-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18145","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The stakes are higher&#8217;: Hong Kong&#8217;s battle lines redrawn for post-Covid protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The territory is braced for a summer of activism, but mass demonstrations may be a thing of the past as police target leaders, reporters and freedoms<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong is bracing for another summer of protest after renewed violence in parliament, shopping malls, and streets over the weekend. But after almost a year of Beijing\u2019s escalating anger, a growing sense of impunity among police, and a still-dangerous pandemic the rules of engagement are being redrawn.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday the Legislative Council (LegCo) hosted alarming scenes as pro-Beijing legislators protected by security took control of a committee chair, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/08\/hong-kong-parliament-in-chaos-as-politicians-fight-for-chair\">sparking a standoff which escalated to violence<\/a>. They were seeking to pass a controversial law which would criminalise disrespect of the national anthem. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/11\/carrie-lam-blames-hong-kong-education-system-for-fuelling-protests\">A weekend of flash mobs followed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/13\/the-stakes-are-higher-hong-kongs-battle-lines-redrawn-for-post-covid-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The territory is braced for a summer of activism, but mass demonstrations may be a thing of the past as police target leaders, reporters and freedomsHong Kong is bracing for another summer of protest after renewed violence in parliament, shopping malls&#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":[41,50,48,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145","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=18145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18146,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145\/revisions\/18146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}