{"id":18703,"date":"2020-05-26T13:55:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T04:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/26\/chinas-military-says-it-is-prepared-to-protect-security-in-hong-kong-as-protests-grow"},"modified":"2020-05-26T13:55:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T04:55:52","slug":"chinas-military-says-it-is-prepared-to-protect-security-in-hong-kong-as-protests-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18703","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s military says it is prepared to protect security in Hong Kong, as protests grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PLA commander says 10,000 troops are prepared to \u2018safeguard\u2019 city\u2019s sovereignty as Beijing warns against \u2018underestimating\u2019 China<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s military is ready and able to \u201csafeguard\u201d Chinese sovereignty in Hong Kong, the commander of the city-based garrison has said, amid growing anger at Beijing\u2019s plans to bypass Hong Kong\u2019s legislature and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/22\/chinas-national-security-law-ban-subversion-and-separatism-hong-kong\">impose national security laws in the city<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The warning came as protesters prepared for further demonstrations on Wednesday when the legislature starts debate on a controversial bill to criminalise ridicule of the Chinese national anthem.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/26\/chinas-military-says-it-is-prepared-to-protect-security-in-hong-kong-as-protests-grow\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLA commander says 10,000 troops are prepared to \u2018safeguard\u2019 city\u2019s sovereignty as Beijing warns against \u2018underestimating\u2019 ChinaChina\u2019s military is ready and able to \u201csafeguard\u201d Chinese sovereignty in Hong Kong, the commander of the city-based garrison&#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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/18703","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=18703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18704,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18703\/revisions\/18704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}