{"id":7180,"date":"2019-08-15T23:17:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T14:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/15\/hong-kong-protests-china-envoy-says-beijing-has-power-to-swiftly-quell-unrest"},"modified":"2019-08-15T23:17:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T14:17:30","slug":"hong-kong-protests-china-envoy-says-beijing-has-power-to-swiftly-quell-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7180","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: China envoy says Beijing has &#8216;power to swiftly quell unrest&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s ambassador to UK Liu Xiaoming also accuses intefering British politicians of \u2018colonial mindset\u2019<\/p>\n<p>China has issued its most pointed threat yet to pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, warning that it had \u201cenough solutions and enough power to swiftly quell unrest\u201d should it deem the situation \u201cuncontrollable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to international media in London on Thursday, China\u2019s veteran ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, also accused some British politicians of harbouring a \u201ccolonial mindset\u201d in their interventions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/15\/hong-kong-protests-china-envoy-says-beijing-has-power-to-swiftly-quell-unrest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s ambassador to UK Liu Xiaoming also accuses intefering British politicians of \u2018colonial mindset\u2019China has issued its most pointed threat yet to pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, warning that it had \u201cenough solutions and enough power to swif&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"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":[41,50,48,80,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","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\/7180","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7205,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions\/7205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}