{"id":18743,"date":"2020-05-27T20:53:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T11:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/27\/a-history-of-resistance-key-dates-in-hong-kongs-battle-with-china"},"modified":"2020-05-27T20:53:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T11:53:36","slug":"a-history-of-resistance-key-dates-in-hong-kongs-battle-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18743","title":{"rendered":"A history of resistance: key dates in Hong Kong&#8217;s battle with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s attempts to bring the territory to heel since handover have resulted in pushback and protest<\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s rubber-stamp parliament is to vote to move forward with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/21\/china-proposes-controversial-national-security-law-for-hong-kong\">national security law <\/a>for Hong Kong, in an unprecedented push that many fear will result in silencing critics of the government in the territory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/21\/hong-kongs-security-laws-what-are-they-and-why-are-they-so-controversial\">The legislation<\/a>, which would bypass the semi-autonomous territory\u2019s legislature as well as widespread opposition to such measures, comes on Thursday after years of controversial government-proposed measures aimed at bringing Hong Kong more in line with Beijing\u2019s wishes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/27\/a-history-of-resistance-key-dates-in-hong-kongs-battle-with-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s attempts to bring the territory to heel since handover have resulted in pushback and protestBeijing\u2019s rubber-stamp parliament is to vote to move forward with a national security law for Hong Kong, in an unprecedented push that many fear will &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/18743","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18744,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18743\/revisions\/18744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}