{"id":8187,"date":"2019-08-30T15:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/30\/hong-kongs-be-water-protests-leaves-china-casting-about-for-an-enemy"},"modified":"2019-08-30T15:30:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T06:30:07","slug":"hong-kongs-be-water-protests-leave-china-casting-about-for-an-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8187","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong&#8217;s &#8216;be water&#8217; protests leave China casting about for an enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s worldview cannot conceive of a leaderless movement: there have to be saboteurs behind it<\/p>\n<p>On Friday morning, as Hong Kong woke up, the news came in as thick as the incessant rain: Andy Chan Ho-tin, the head of the outlawed Hong Kong National party, was arrested overnight at the airport as he was about to go to Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the news of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/30\/hong-kong-pro-democracy-leader-joshua-wong-arrested-says-demosisto\">Joshua Wong\u2019s arrest <\/a>\u2013 one of the most famous pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. Wong\u2019s name became known in 2012 when, at 15, he organised the protests against the national education curriculum. The curriculum was seen as an attempt at instilling patriotism in Hong Kong\u2019s youth, but described as \u201cbrainwashing\u201d by Wong and his supporters. He was one of the leaders of the Umbrella Movement, in 2014 \u2013 for which he served time in jail, and is still facing a number of charges. Among the Umbrella Movement\u2019s leaders was Agnes Chow: she, too, was arrested on Friday. Wong and Chow are the co-founders of the political party Demosisto, which, like Chan\u2019s Hong Kong National party, is one of the organisations that emerged from the Umbrella Movement. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/30\/hong-kongs-be-water-protests-leaves-china-casting-about-for-an-enemy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s worldview cannot conceive of a leaderless movement: there have to be saboteurs behind itOn Friday morning, as Hong Kong woke up, the news came in as thick as the incessant rain: Andy Chan Ho-tin, the head of the outlawed Hong Kong National pa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187","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\/450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8188,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187\/revisions\/8188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}