{"id":23192,"date":"2020-09-28T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T00:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/28\/who-runs-hong-kong-party-faithful-shipped-in-to-carry-out-beijing-will-security-law"},"modified":"2020-09-28T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T00:30:02","slug":"who-runs-hong-kong-party-faithful-shipped-in-to-carry-out-beijings-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23192","title":{"rendered":"Who runs Hong Kong: party faithful shipped in to carry out Beijing&#8217;s will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardliners and allies of the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, are remaking the semi-autonomous territory<\/p>\n<p>A senior communist party operative whose only previous experience in Hong Kong is a business trip two years ago; a former Guangdong mayor who oversaw the mass arrests of villagers protesting against land seizures; a former provincial secretary best known for tearing down hundreds of churches and crosses in eastern China.<\/p>\n<p>These are China\u2019s top officials charged with Hong Kong affairs, hardliners and allies of the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, who are remaking the semi-autonomous territory into a city that is directly under Beijing\u2019s control in all but name.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/28\/who-runs-hong-kong-party-faithful-shipped-in-to-carry-out-beijing-will-security-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardliners and allies of the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, are remaking the semi-autonomous territoryA senior communist party operative whose only previous experience in Hong Kong is a business trip two years ago; a former Guangdong mayor who oversaw &#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-23192","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\/23192","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=23192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23207,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23192\/revisions\/23207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}