{"id":7046,"date":"2019-08-14T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/13\/colour-revolution-jibe-implies-china-will-stop-at-little-to-crush-hong-kong-protests"},"modified":"2019-08-14T03:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T18:00:06","slug":"china-flaunts-military-muscle-as-it-seeks-to-quell-hong-kongs-colour-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7046","title":{"rendered":"China flaunts military muscle as it seeks to quell Hong Kong&#8217;s &lsquo;colour revolution&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s rhetoric escalating alongside video of troop carriers at border, yet experts say deployment a last resort<\/p>\n<p>The messages from Beijing to protesters in Hong Kong are increasingly ominous. First there was propaganda footage of Chinese soldiers garrisoned in Hong Kong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/01\/hong-kong-protests-china-military-breaks-silence-to-warn-unrest-will-not-be-tolerated\">drilling for intense urban fighting<\/a> that looked more like a civil war than search and rescue or crowd control.<\/p>\n<p>Now footage has emerged of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2019\/aug\/13\/china-releases-video-troop-carriers-hong-kong-border-video\">armoured para<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2019\/aug\/13\/china-releases-video-troop-carriers-hong-kong-border-video\">military vehicles massing across the border<\/a>. Two months into demonstrations sparked by a controversial extradition law, official rhetoric from Beijing has escalated too. Authorities recently denounced protests as \u201cterrorist acts\u201d, promised an \u201ciron fist\u201d response and, perhaps most alarmingly, described the movement as a \u201ccolour revolution\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/13\/colour-revolution-jibe-implies-china-will-stop-at-little-to-crush-hong-kong-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s rhetoric escalating alongside video of troop carriers at border, yet experts say deployment a last resortThe messages from Beijing to protesters in Hong Kong are increasingly ominous. First there was propaganda footage of Chinese soldiers gar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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-7046","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\/7046","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7048,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions\/7048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}