{"id":45892,"date":"2022-06-30T11:59:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T02:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/30\/hong-kong-tightens-security-ahead-of-xi-visit-for-25th-anniversary-of-handover"},"modified":"2022-06-30T21:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:47:59","slug":"hong-kong-tightens-security-ahead-of-xi-visit-for-25th-anniversary-of-handover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45892","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong tightens security as Xi visits for 25th anniversary of handover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s president makes first trip outside mainland since pandemic began as territory prepares to mark milestone<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, has made his first trip outside the mainland since the Covid pandemic began, landing in Hong Kong and telling crowds the region had \u201crisen from the ashes\u201d after years of upheaval.<\/p>\n<p>The leader, his wife, Peng Liyuan, and delegates, arrived by high-speed train at West Kowloon station before his scheduled attendance at the inauguration of the city\u2019s new chief executive, and the 25th anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/30\/the-hong-kong-unofficials-who-advised-britain-on-the-handover-and-were-ignored\">British return of Hong Kong to Chinese rule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/30\/hong-kong-tightens-security-ahead-of-xi-visit-for-25th-anniversary-of-handover\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s president makes first trip outside mainland since pandemic began as territory prepares to mark milestoneChina\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, has made his first trip outside the mainland since the Covid pandemic began, landing in Hong Kong and telling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,48,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45892","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45920,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45892\/revisions\/45920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}