{"id":55419,"date":"2023-05-24T01:04:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/23\/hongkongers-opt-out-of-organ-registry-amid-fear-of-chinese-donations"},"modified":"2023-05-24T01:04:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:04:16","slug":"hongkongers-opt-out-of-organ-registry-amid-fear-of-chinese-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55419","title":{"rendered":"Hongkongers opt out of organ registry \u2018amid fear of Chinese donations\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of residents withdraw consent in apparent protest at potential donation agreement with the mainland <\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Hongkongers have opted out of the city\u2019s organ donor registry, seemingly as a form of subtle protest against proposals to establish deeper medical ties with mainland China.<\/p>\n<p>Between December and April, there were more than 5,700 applications to withdraw from the centralised organ donor registry, the government revealed on Monday. That is \u201csignificantly higher\u201d than the normal rate of withdrawals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/23\/hongkongers-opt-out-of-organ-registry-amid-fear-of-chinese-donations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of residents withdraw consent in apparent protest at potential donation agreement with the mainland Thousands of Hongkongers have opted out of the city\u2019s organ donor registry, seemingly as a form of subtle protest against proposals to establi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[50,48,921,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-organ-donation","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\/55419","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55420,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55419\/revisions\/55420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}