{"id":50699,"date":"2022-11-30T05:22:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T20:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/this-feels-so-much-like-hong-kong-territorys-solidarity-with-chinese-uprising"},"modified":"2022-11-30T05:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T20:22:27","slug":"this-feels-so-much-like-hong-kong-territorys-solidarity-with-chinese-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50699","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This feels so much like Hong Kong\u2019: territory\u2019s solidarity with Chinese uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans of Hong Kong\u2019s 2019 protests see echoes in mainland\u2019s anti-Covid anger, but fear a similar outcome<\/p>\n<p>Jack*, a Hongkonger, used to have a grim view of mainland Chinese people, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/27\/anti-lockdown-protests-spread-across-china-amid-growing-anger-at-zero-covid-strategy\">protests over anti-Covid restrictions<\/a> that exploded across China last weekend changed his view.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore, I thought they were mostly the arrogant and nationalistic people who just cared only about safeguarding \u2018one China\u2019 and the [Communist] party, and who boasted about the superiority of China,\u201d said the 35-year-old IT professional, who did not want to give his real name for fear of repercussions from Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/this-feels-so-much-like-hong-kong-territorys-solidarity-with-chinese-uprising\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans of Hong Kong\u2019s 2019 protests see echoes in mainland\u2019s anti-Covid anger, but fear a similar outcomeJack*, a Hongkonger, used to have a grim view of mainland Chinese people, but the protests over anti-Covid restrictions that exploded across Chin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"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":[41,50,1066,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/50699","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50700,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50699\/revisions\/50700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}