{"id":23331,"date":"2020-10-01T10:32:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T01:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/01\/hong-kong-police-out-in-force-to-deter-protests-on-chinas-national-day"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:32:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T01:32:55","slug":"hong-kong-police-out-in-force-to-deter-protests-on-chinas-national-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23331","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police out in force to deter protests on China&#8217;s national day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year fierce clashes broke out between protesters and police on 1 October, but the introduction of harsh security laws has largely stifled dissent <\/p>\n<p>Thousands of riot police were stationed across Hong Kong on Thursday to stamp out any large democracy rallies as the financial hub marked China\u2019s National Day under the shadow of a growing crackdown on dissent.<\/p>\n<p>The People\u2019s Republic of China celebrates its founding on 1 October with a holiday and carefully choreographed festivities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/01\/hong-kong-police-out-in-force-to-deter-protests-on-chinas-national-day\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year fierce clashes broke out between protesters and police on 1 October, but the introduction of harsh security laws has largely stifled dissent Thousands of riot police were stationed across Hong Kong on Thursday to stamp out any large democracy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-23331","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\/23331","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23332,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23331\/revisions\/23332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}