{"id":18913,"date":"2020-06-02T18:39:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T09:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/02\/it-is-much-worse-veterans-of-hong-kongs-2003-protests-fear-new-china-law"},"modified":"2020-06-02T18:39:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T09:39:19","slug":"it-is-much-worse-veterans-of-hong-kongs-2003-protests-fear-new-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18913","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It is much worse&#8217;: veterans of Hong Kong&#8217;s 2003 protests fear new law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huge demonstrations 17 years ago managed to block Beijing\u2019s bill, but now China threatens a fresh clampdown<\/p>\n<p>On 1 July 2003, in the middle of a sweltering Hong Kong summer, Mak Yin-Ting was among a crush of people trying to get into the tree-fringed Victoria Park. Sweating and crowded close together, people spilled out on to roads and highways where they waited for hours.<\/p>\n<p>The experience was such an anomaly that one man climbed on top of a rubbish bin and shouted: \u201cWhat the hell is going on?\u201d He was quickly told to shut up and sit down, Mak remembers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/02\/it-is-much-worse-veterans-of-hong-kongs-2003-protests-fear-new-china-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge demonstrations 17 years ago managed to block Beijing\u2019s bill, but now China threatens a fresh clampdownOn 1 July 2003, in the middle of a sweltering Hong Kong summer, Mak Yin-Ting was among a crush of people trying to get into the tree-fringed Vict&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1330,"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-18913","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\/18913","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\/1330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18914,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913\/revisions\/18914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}