{"id":7339,"date":"2019-08-18T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/18\/hong-kong-protesters-dilemma-fight-resist-peacefully-china-troops"},"modified":"2019-08-18T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T07:00:06","slug":"hong-kongs-dilemma-fight-or-resist-peacefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7339","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s dilemma: fight or resist peacefully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 11 weeks of demonstrations, weary protesters fear only their ebbing stamina or Chinese troops will break the stalemate<\/p>\n<p>Ellie Lau, a 21-year-old student, was one of thousands of protesters who flooded Hong Kong\u2019s airport this week. There, she and a friend had an uneasy conversation about the future.<\/p>\n<p>As they joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/hong-kong-airport-authority-cancels-flights-over-protests\" title=\"\">throngs of demonstrators dressed in <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/hong-kong-airport-authority-cancels-flights-over-protests\" title=\"\">black<\/a> sitting on the floor of the arrivals hall they talked about exhaustion and uncertainty \u2013 emotions they have suppressed over the past two months of protesting against their government. \u201cIt\u2019s already very hard for us. All the people I know are all very tired physically and mentally. We don\u2019t know what we should or can do,\u201d says Lau. \u201cI will ask myself, \u2018What else can I give up for this movement for the future of Hong Kong?\u2019 We don\u2019t usually talk about it, but we are all thinking about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/18\/hong-kong-protesters-dilemma-fight-resist-peacefully-china-troops\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 11 weeks of demonstrations, weary protesters fear only their ebbing stamina or Chinese troops will break the stalemateEllie Lau, a 21-year-old student, was one of thousands of protesters who flooded Hong Kong\u2019s airport this week. There, she and a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"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":[41,555,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","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\/7339","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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7371,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions\/7371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}