{"id":52709,"date":"2023-02-18T01:16:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T16:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/17\/video-china-white-paper-protest-training-exercise-police-officers"},"modified":"2023-02-18T01:16:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T16:16:34","slug":"thin-blue-square-video-shows-apparent-chinese-police-drill-against-protester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52709","title":{"rendered":"Thin blue square: video shows apparent Chinese police drill against protester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footage seems to show 10 officers training to neutralise one man using fabric banners<\/p>\n<p>How many police officers does it take to neutralise a single unarmed protester? According to a video purported to be from China, it takes at least 10 highly disciplined members of law enforcement, as well as some bespoke blue banners.<\/p>\n<p>In footage that emerged on Thursday, black-clad officers are shown practising a drill to surround a single person holding up a white piece of paper \u2013 an item that became the symbol of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/08\/we-just-want-to-live-in-a-normal-world-chinas-young-protesters-speak-out-and-disappear\">anti-lockdown protests<\/a> that rocked several major Chinese cities at the end of last year, and the demonstrations against the security laws imposed on Hong Kong in 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/17\/video-china-white-paper-protest-training-exercise-police-officers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footage seems to show 10 officers training to neutralise one man using fabric bannersHow many police officers does it take to neutralise a single unarmed protester? According to a video purported to be from China, it takes at least 10 highly discipline&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3576,"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":[41,50,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-protest","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\/52709","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\/3576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52710,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52709\/revisions\/52710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}