{"id":23329,"date":"2020-10-01T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/01\/letters-to-hong-kong-the-final-victory-will-belong-to-us"},"modified":"2020-10-01T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T04:00:00","slug":"letters-to-hong-kong-the-final-victory-will-belong-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23329","title":{"rendered":"Letters to Hong Kong: \u2018the final victory will belong to us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dissidents and exiles write to Hongkongers to express solidarity and offer hope for the future<\/p>\n<p>Mainland Chinese residents, activists and writers have watched with dismay as Hong Kong \u2013 a city that was once a haven of free speech and political expression \u2013 becomes more like those across the border as China cracks down on dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Three months on from the launch of Beijing\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect\">national security law<\/a>, several have shared advice, empathy and thoughts through letters to their counterparts in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/01\/letters-to-hong-kong-the-final-victory-will-belong-to-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dissidents and exiles write to Hongkongers to express solidarity and offer hope for the futureMainland Chinese residents, activists and writers have watched with dismay as Hong Kong \u2013 a city that was once a haven of free speech and political expression&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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-23329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23329","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23330,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23329\/revisions\/23330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}