{"id":19299,"date":"2020-06-14T11:01:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T02:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/14\/how-the-killing-of-george-floyd-exposed-hong-kong-activists-uneasy-relationship-with-donald-trump"},"modified":"2020-06-14T11:01:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T02:01:16","slug":"how-the-killing-of-george-floyd-exposed-hong-kong-activists-uneasy-relationship-with-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19299","title":{"rendered":"How the killing of George Floyd exposed Hong Kong activists&#8217; uneasy relationship with Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US president may be the pro-democracy movement\u2019s biggest backer, but some protesters feel they are being used<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy movement has struggled to reconcile the support it has received from&nbsp;Donald Trump&nbsp;with his administration\u2019s brutal crackdown on protests over the police killing of George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few weeks, unprecedented Black Lives Matter protests, renewed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/george-floyd\">killing of George Floyd<\/a> by a white police officer, have spread to every US state and to countries across the world, regardless of pandemic restrictions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/14\/how-the-killing-of-george-floyd-exposed-hong-kong-activists-uneasy-relationship-with-donald-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US president may be the pro-democracy movement\u2019s biggest backer, but some protesters feel they are being usedHong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy movement has struggled to reconcile the support it has received from&nbsp;Donald Trump&nbsp;with his administrati&#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":[41,1445,50,415,1441,48,80,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-black-lives-matter-movement","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-george-floyd","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/19299","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=19299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19300,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19299\/revisions\/19300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}