{"id":18715,"date":"2020-05-27T14:19:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T05:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/27\/hong-kong-trump-china-security-crackdown-protests"},"modified":"2020-05-27T14:19:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T05:19:56","slug":"hong-kong-crisis-riot-police-flood-city-as-china-protests-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18715","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong crisis: riot police flood city as China protests build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-democracy groups gather to protest against national anthem bill as Donald Trump says he is \u2018displeased\u2019 with Beijing <\/p>\n<p>Thousands of armed police have flooded the streets of Hong Kong in an unprecedented show of force to prevent protests against a law criminalising ridicule of China\u2019s national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>In the morning rush hour police in riot gear stopped and searched mainly young people outside Hong Kong\u2019s MTR train stations, and lined walkways as commuters shuffled past, prompting accusations on social media that the city had become \u201ca police state\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/27\/hong-kong-trump-china-security-crackdown-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-democracy groups gather to protest against national anthem bill as Donald Trump says he is \u2018displeased\u2019 with Beijing Thousands of armed police have flooded the streets of Hong Kong in an unprecedented show of force to prevent protests against a law&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1351,"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":[41,50,415,48,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-hong-kong","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18715","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\/1351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18747,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18715\/revisions\/18747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}