{"id":6655,"date":"2019-08-08T22:32:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T13:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/08\/storm-in-a-bubble-tea-cup-over-taiwanese-firms-support-for-hong-kong-protesters"},"modified":"2019-08-08T22:32:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T13:32:13","slug":"storm-in-a-bubble-teacup-over-taiwan-firms-support-for-hong-kong-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6655","title":{"rendered":"Storm in a bubble teacup over Taiwan firm&#8217;s support for Hong Kong protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mainland Chinese social media users call for boycott after franchise urged solidarity<\/p>\n<p>Internet users on the Chinese mainland have blacklisted popular bubble tea brands from Taiwan after a Hong Kong franchise urged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/08\/no-tears-no-blood-hongkongers-stage-huge-laser-show-to-protest-police-arrests\">solidarity with street protesters<\/a> there.<\/p>\n<p>The online furore began when Yifang Fruit Tea closed one of its Hong Kong shops for a day and put up a sign that said in Chinese: \u201cStand together with Hong Kongers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/08\/storm-in-a-bubble-tea-cup-over-taiwanese-firms-support-for-hong-kong-protesters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainland Chinese social media users call for boycott after franchise urged solidarityInternet users on the Chinese mainland have blacklisted popular bubble tea brands from Taiwan after a Hong Kong franchise urged solidarity with street protesters there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"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":[41,50,48,80,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-taiwan","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\/6655","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\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6656,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions\/6656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}