{"id":40508,"date":"2022-01-10T20:28:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T11:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/10\/xinjiang-anti-terror-general-to-lead-china-hong-kong-garrison"},"modified":"2022-01-10T20:28:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T11:28:21","slug":"xinjiang-anti-terror-general-to-lead-chinas-hong-kong-garrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40508","title":{"rendered":"Xinjiang anti-terror general to lead China\u2019s Hong Kong garrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peng Jingtang was chief of staff of Armed Police Corps, part of China\u2019s paramilitary police force<\/p>\n<p>A general who led China\u2019s anti-terrorism special forces in Xinjiang has been named as the new chief of the People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s garrison in Hong Kong, state media have reported.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment comes as China toughens its rule in the international business hub, which underwent huge and sometimes violent street protests in 2019. Beijing imposed a controversial national security law in Hong Kong in 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/10\/xinjiang-anti-terror-general-to-lead-china-hong-kong-garrison\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peng Jingtang was chief of staff of Armed Police Corps, part of China\u2019s paramilitary police forceA general who led China\u2019s anti-terrorism special forces in Xinjiang has been named as the new chief of the People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s garrison in Hong Kong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2121,"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-40508","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\/40508","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\/2121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40509,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40508\/revisions\/40509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}