{"id":8492,"date":"2019-09-04T22:56:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/04\/hong-kong-will-scrapping-extradition-bill-end-the-protests"},"modified":"2019-09-04T22:56:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:56:02","slug":"hong-kong-will-scrapping-extradition-bill-end-the-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8492","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: will scrapping extradition bill end the protests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators say it\u2019s too little, too late, as call for inquiry into police force rejected<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/04\/hong-kong-lam-to-withdraw-extradition-bill-say-reports\">Hong Kong\u2019s leader withdraws extradition bill that ignited mass protests<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The decision by Hong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/04\/hong-kong-lam-to-withdraw-extradition-bill-say-reports\">withdraw the controversial extradition bill <\/a>that has plunged the Chinese territory into its worst political crisis in years seems unlikely to end the months-long protests in the semi-autonomous city \u2013 with police violence remaining a key concern for demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>Many ordinary Hong Kong residents, as well as protesters, have lambasted the move as too little, too late, and vowed to continue demonstrating.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/04\/hong-kong-will-scrapping-extradition-bill-end-the-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators say it\u2019s too little, too late, as call for inquiry into police force rejectedHong Kong\u2019s leader withdraws extradition bill that ignited mass protestsThe decision by Hong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, to withdraw the controversial extradition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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":[41,555,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8522,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions\/8522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}