{"id":75669,"date":"2025-12-19T09:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/19\/workers-rural-protests-china-land-grabs"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:48:18","slug":"dashed-dreams-and-land-grabs-the-rise-of-rural-protests-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75669","title":{"rendered":"Dashed dreams and land grabs: The rise of rural protests in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive<\/strong>: Clashes over rural plots are increasing, as people whose big-city plans have evaporated return home to face local governments groaning under huge debt<\/p>\n<p>Standing inside the temple armed with buckets of rice, the villagers gaze out at police officers armed with riot shields and sticks, the sound of shouting audible over banging drums.<\/p>\n<p>Then the tension erupts. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q8k2JLckZp0\">scuffle breaks out<\/a>, some villagers throw handfuls of rice at the officers, a traditional custom for dispelling evil, while others hoist religious artefacts onto their shoulders and march away, past groups of police and other officials.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/19\/workers-rural-protests-china-land-grabs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Clashes over rural plots are increasing, as people whose big-city plans have evaporated return home to face local governments groaning under huge debtStanding inside the temple armed with buckets of rice, the villagers gaze out at police off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75669","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75670,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75669\/revisions\/75670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}