{"id":7264,"date":"2019-08-16T12:39:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T03:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/16\/hong-kong-trump-calls-on-xi-to-talk-to-protesters-as-weekend-rallies-loom"},"modified":"2019-08-16T12:39:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T03:39:55","slug":"hong-kong-trump-calls-on-xi-to-talk-to-protesters-as-weekend-rallies-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7264","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: Trump calls on Xi to talk to protesters as weekend rallies loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president\u2019s intervention comes as Beijing sharpens its threat to use force against pro-democracy protesters<\/p>\n<p>US president Donald Trump has said he is \u201cconcerned\u201d about the risk of a violent Chinese crackdown in Hong Kong, as protesters prepare for another weekend of rallies and demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he would soon be talking to the Chinese president Xi Jinping on the phone and urged him to negotiate directly with pro-democracy protesters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/16\/hong-kong-trump-calls-on-xi-to-talk-to-protesters-as-weekend-rallies-loom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president\u2019s intervention comes as Beijing sharpens its threat to use force against pro-democracy protestersUS president Donald Trump has said he is \u201cconcerned\u201d about the risk of a violent Chinese crackdown in Hong Kong, as protesters prepare for ano&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,50,415,48,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-hong-kong","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7311,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions\/7311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}