{"id":6743,"date":"2019-08-11T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/11\/protests-clashes-and-lack-of-trust-the-new-normal-for-hong-kong"},"modified":"2019-08-11T13:00:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T04:00:35","slug":"protests-clashes-and-lack-of-trust-the-new-normal-for-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6743","title":{"rendered":"Protests, clashes and lack of trust: the new normal for Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s busiest cities has grown unusually quiet as more and more people stay at home<\/p>\n<p>It was the third night in a row that Biyanca Chu\u2019s neighbourhood, Wong Tai Sin, a working-class residential district in Hong Kong, had been taken over by police and protesters. The ground was littered with plastic bottles, broken umbrellas and teargas canisters as the two sides faced off.<\/p>\n<p>Chu, 22, slight in an all-black outfit, climbed over a road barrier, took off her baseball cap and slipped a gas mask on. \u201cAre you ready to go to the frontline?\u201d she asked her companions and they disappeared. Within half an hour, the police began firing rounds of teargas and rubber bullets, charging and making arrests, until the group dispersed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/11\/protests-clashes-and-lack-of-trust-the-new-normal-for-hong-kong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s busiest cities has grown unusually quiet as more and more people stay at homeIt was the third night in a row that Biyanca Chu\u2019s neighbourhood, Wong Tai Sin, a working-class residential district in Hong Kong, had been taken over by po&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"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":[41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/6743","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\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6744,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions\/6744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}