{"id":6011,"date":"2019-08-06T19:48:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T10:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/06\/masked-hong-kongers-democracy-china-thugs"},"modified":"2019-08-06T19:48:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T10:48:57","slug":"hong-kong-protesters-and-chinese-officials-hold-rival-press-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6011","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protesters and Chinese officials hold rival press conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing authorities issue strongest warning yet to demonstrators in rare media briefing<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities and masked protesters have held rival press conferences in an attempt to take control of the narrative amid escalating demonstrations in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>In a rare press conference on Tuesday, Beijing sounded its strongest warning yet to protesters not to underestimate the power of the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the demonstrators \u201cbrazen, violent and criminal actors\u201d, Yang Guang, a spokesman for the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the Chinese government, said: \u201cDon\u2019t misjudge the situation or take restraint as a sign of weakness \u2026 don\u2019t underestimate the firm resolve and tremendous power by the central government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/06\/masked-hong-kongers-democracy-china-thugs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing authorities issue strongest warning yet to demonstrators in rare media briefingChinese authorities and masked protesters have held rival press conferences in an attempt to take control of the narrative amid escalating demonstrations in Hong Kon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[41,555,50,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6012,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions\/6012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}