{"id":8537,"date":"2019-09-05T14:43:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T05:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/05\/hong-kongs-carrie-lam-vows-to-use-stern-law-enforcement-to-stamp-out-protests"},"modified":"2019-09-05T14:43:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T05:43:04","slug":"hong-kongs-carrie-lam-vows-to-use-stern-law-enforcement-to-stamp-out-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8537","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong&#8217;s Carrie Lam vows to use &#8216;stern law enforcement&#8217; to stamp out protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader refuses to resign and backs police handling of protests despite widespread claims of brutality<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s embattled leader, Carrie Lam, has vowed to use \u201cstern law enforcement\u201d to stamp out violent protests, a day after she made a dramatic announcement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/04\/hong-kong-lam-to-withdraw-extradition-bill-say-reports\">formally withdraw an extradition bill<\/a> that has ignited months of protests.<\/p>\n<p>At a press briefing on Thursday, Lam said the purpose of her decision to formally withdraw the suspended bill was to \u201c<em>zhibao zhiluan<\/em>\u201d<em> <\/em>(\u201cput a stop to violence and chaos\u201d) \u2013 a phrase often used by mainland Chinese officials when condemning the protests in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/05\/hong-kongs-carrie-lam-vows-to-use-stern-law-enforcement-to-stamp-out-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader refuses to resign and backs police handling of protests despite widespread claims of brutalityHong Kong\u2019s embattled leader, Carrie Lam, has vowed to use \u201cstern law enforcement\u201d to stamp out violent protests, a day after she made a dramatic annou&#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":[41,50,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537","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=8537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8538,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions\/8538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}