{"id":6219,"date":"2019-08-07T13:39:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T04:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/07\/hong-kong-protests-australia-issues-travel-alert-as-china-warns-of-worst-crisis-since-1997"},"modified":"2019-08-07T13:39:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T04:39:05","slug":"hong-kong-protests-australia-issues-travel-alert-as-china-warns-of-worst-crisis-since-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6219","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: Australia issues travel alert as China warns of worst crisis since 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia tells tourists there is a risk of violence between protesters and police or \u2018criminally linked individuals\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Australians travelling to Hong Kong have been warned to exercise a \u201chigh degree of caution\u201d as China said Hong Kong was facing its worst crisis since the former British colony was handed back in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Dfat) said: \u201cThere is a <a href=\"https:\/\/smartraveller.gov.au\/Countries\/asia\/north\/Pages\/hong_kong.aspx\">risk of violent confrontation<\/a> between protesters and police, or criminally linked individuals, particularly at unauthorised protests.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfa.ie\/travel\/travel-advice\/a-z-list-of-countries\/china-hong-kong-macau\/\">Ireland<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/foreign-travel-advice\/hong-kong\">the UK<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hk.emb-japan.go.jp\/itpr_ja\/kougi20190805c.html\">Japan<\/a> have all issued Hong Kong travel warnings since July. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/07\/hong-kong-protests-australia-issues-travel-alert-as-china-warns-of-worst-crisis-since-1997\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia tells tourists there is a risk of violence between protesters and police or \u2018criminally linked individuals\u2019 Australians travelling to Hong Kong have been warned to exercise a \u201chigh degree of caution\u201d as China said Hong Kong was facing its wor&#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":[41,50,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/6219","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=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6220,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions\/6220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}