{"id":71354,"date":"2025-04-28T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T04:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/28\/revealed-online-campaign-urged-far-right-to-attack-chinas-opponents-in-uk"},"modified":"2025-04-28T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T04:00:52","slug":"revealed-online-campaign-urged-far-right-to-attack-chinas-opponents-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71354","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: online campaign urged far right to attack China\u2019s opponents in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media incitement following last summer\u2019s riots appears to be new tactic against Hong Kong exiles<\/p>\n<p>One morning last August, a troubling message appeared in a social media group for Hongkongers in the UK. It was already a tense time to be an immigrant. Rioters, propelled by false claims online that the man who had murdered children in Southport was an asylum seeker, were descending on hotels housing refugees, trying to burn them alive.<\/p>\n<p>The message alerted the Hongkongers to posts on far-right channels suggesting some new targets. \u201cThey all help refugees who come to the UK to take resources,\u201d one of them read.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/28\/revealed-online-campaign-urged-far-right-to-attack-chinas-opponents-in-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media incitement following last summer\u2019s riots appears to be new tactic against Hong Kong exilesOne morning last August, a troubling message appeared in a social media group for Hongkongers in the UK. It was already a tense time to be an immigra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4718,"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":[41,50,1638,48,235,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-far-right","category-hong-kong","category-social-media","category-uk-news","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\/71354","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\/4718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71355,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71354\/revisions\/71355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}