{"id":8034,"date":"2019-08-29T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T02:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/29\/chinese-troop-movement-into-hong-kong-prompts-unease"},"modified":"2019-08-29T11:55:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T02:55:15","slug":"chinese-troop-movement-into-hong-kong-prompts-unease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8034","title":{"rendered":"Chinese troop movement into Hong Kong prompts unease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Movements, which have been portrayed as a scheduled troop rotation, come days ahead of anti-government protests <\/p>\n<p>Chinese military vehicles have been seen moving across the border into Hong Kong, in what the military said were regular troop movements, as fears rose that the city could see a Beijing-led crackdown after months of political unrest.<\/p>\n<p>Following witness reports of the movements in the early hours of Thursday, state-run news agency Xinhua released a report that the Hong Kong Garrison of the Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) was making <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cctv.com\/2019\/08\/29\/ARTI93PiIE619YMd8LWUxQHf190829.shtml?spm=C96370.PsikHJQ1ICOX.EKuioXvJBBSD.4\">a scheduled rotation<\/a> and that it was an \u201cannual normal routine\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/29\/chinese-troop-movement-into-hong-kong-prompts-unease\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movements, which have been portrayed as a scheduled troop rotation, come days ahead of anti-government protests Chinese military vehicles have been seen moving across the border into Hong Kong, in what the military said were regular troop movements, as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034","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\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8058,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions\/8058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}