{"id":4956,"date":"2019-07-29T19:18:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T10:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/29\/china-calls-for-hong-kong-swiftly-punish-violent-protesters"},"modified":"2019-07-29T19:18:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T10:18:49","slug":"china-calls-for-hong-kong-to-swiftly-punish-radical-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=4956","title":{"rendered":"China calls for Hong Kong to swiftly punish \u2018radical\u2019 protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing offers full support to region\u2019s leader in rare remarks from government office<\/p>\n<p>China has offered its full support to Hong Kong\u2019s embattled leader and its police force, and said violent protesters must be swiftly punished, in rare remarks by the government office that oversees policy towards the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong has been rocked by two months of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/28\/hong-kong-protests-against-police-continue-in-third-day-of-unrest\">escalating pro-democracy protests<\/a> that have posed the most significant challenge to Beijing\u2019s authority since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/29\/china-calls-for-hong-kong-swiftly-punish-violent-protesters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing offers full support to region\u2019s leader in rare remarks from government officeChina has offered its full support to Hong Kong\u2019s embattled leader and its police force, and said violent protesters must be swiftly punished, in rare remarks by the g&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"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-4956","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\/4956","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\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4957,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions\/4957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}