{"id":8345,"date":"2019-09-01T22:30:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/01\/how-far-will-china-go-to-stamp-out-hong-kong-protests"},"modified":"2019-09-01T22:30:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T13:30:06","slug":"how-far-will-china-go-to-stamp-out-hong-kong-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8345","title":{"rendered":"How far will China go to stamp out Hong Kong protests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears of Tiananmen-style crackdown as regional officials\u2019 tactics only serve to fuel unrest<\/p>\n<p>How far will China go to end Hong Kong\u2019s unrest, now in its 13th week and still growing? Senior officials have spoken not only of \u201cterrorist acts\u201d but of \u201ccolour revolution characteristics\u201d, making it clear that they have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-hongkong-protests-china-exclusive\/exclusive-amid-crisis-china-rejected-hong-kong-plan-to-appease-protesters-sources-idUSKCN1VK0H6\">ruled out compromise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So far they have relied on the Hong Kong government to suppress the protests, but the banning of rallies, brutal police tactics, thug attacks, the arrests of high-profile activists and metro line closures have failed to dampen the unrest. On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/01\/hong-kong-protests-subway-to-airport-shut-down-as-activists-out-in-force\">thousands of activists descended on the airport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/01\/how-far-will-china-go-to-stamp-out-hong-kong-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears of Tiananmen-style crackdown as regional officials\u2019 tactics only serve to fuel unrestHow far will China go to end Hong Kong\u2019s unrest, now in its 13th week and still growing? Senior officials have spoken not only of \u201cterrorist acts\u201d but of \u201ccolour&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"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":[41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/8345","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\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8346,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions\/8346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}