{"id":34853,"date":"2021-08-06T05:16:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T20:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/05\/biden-hong-kong-china-crackdown"},"modified":"2021-08-06T05:16:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T20:16:20","slug":"biden-grants-safe-haven-to-hongkongers-in-us-amid-china-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34853","title":{"rendered":"Biden grants \u2018safe haven\u2019 to Hongkongers in US amid China crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President signs memo allowing people from Hong Kong currently residing in US to live and work in country for 18 months<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden has granted temporary refuge to people from Hong Kong amid the Chinese government\u2019s effort to crush the pro-democracy movement and tighten its control on a city once known for its freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Biden signed a memorandum allowing people from Hong Kong currently residing in the United States to live and work in the country for 18 months, a move likely to further inflame the already tense relations between Washington and Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/05\/biden-hong-kong-china-crackdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President signs memo allowing people from Hong Kong currently residing in US to live and work in country for 18 monthsJoe Biden has granted temporary refuge to people from Hong Kong amid the Chinese government\u2019s effort to crush the pro-democracy moveme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"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":[41,48,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/34853","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\/837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34854,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34853\/revisions\/34854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}