{"id":32810,"date":"2021-06-05T13:05:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T04:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/05\/absolutely-intolerable-china-slams-us-and-eu-hong-kong-tiananmen-candles"},"modified":"2021-06-05T13:05:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T04:05:55","slug":"absolutely-intolerable-china-slams-us-and-eu-hong-kong-tiananmen-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32810","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Absolutely intolerable\u2019: China slams US and EU Hong Kong Tiananmen candles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tributes lit in the windows of the US consulate building and the European Union\u2019s office are a \u2018political show\u2019, says China <\/p>\n<p>China has berated the US and EU consulates in Hong Kong for displaying candles to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre , blasting it as a \u201cclumsy political show\u201d to destabilise the city.<\/p>\n<p>Candles were seen lit in the windows of the US consulate building, which is next to the residence of Hong Kong\u2019s Beijing-appointed leader Carrie Lam, and the European Union\u2019s office on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/05\/absolutely-intolerable-china-slams-us-and-eu-hong-kong-tiananmen-candles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tributes lit in the windows of the US consulate building and the European Union\u2019s office are a \u2018political show\u2019, says China China has berated the US and EU consulates in Hong Kong for displaying candles to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre , bl&#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":[41,50,221,530,48,80,431,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-european-union","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","category-us-news","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\/32810","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=32810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32811,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32810\/revisions\/32811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}