{"id":40658,"date":"2019-08-29T16:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40658"},"modified":"2019-08-29T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:22:23","slug":"chinese-militarys-routine-rotation-of-new-troops-to-hong-kong-garrison-raises-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40658","title":{"rendered":"Chinese military&#8217;s routine rotation of new troops to Hong Kong garrison raises alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>The rotation of fresh Chinese military troops to the Hong Kong garrison sparked widespread concern Thursday, demonstrating how on edge the city is ahead of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/specials\/asia\/hong-kong-protests-intl-hnk\" target=\"_blank\">thirteenth consecutive<\/a> weekend of anti-<a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/28\/asia\/hong-kong-china-crisis-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">government protests<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a statement, China&#8217;s military said the &#8220;annual normal routine action&#8221; had been carried out with the approval of the Central Military Commission and the troops would &#8220;resolutely safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests, effectively perform Hong Kong&#8217;s defense duties, and safeguard Hong Kong&#8217;s prosperity.&#8221; <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/05\/business\/hong-kong-protest-china-army-pla\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">People&#8217;s Liberation Army<\/a> troop movements were carried out in the dead of the night, and took place at the same time as a rotation of the garrison in neighboring Macao. They were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2019-08\/29\/c_138347489.htm\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> by Chinese state media early Thursday morning. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)The rotation of fresh Chinese military troops to the Hong Kong garrison sparked widespread concern Thursday, demonstrating how on edge the city is ahead of a thirteenth consecutive weekend of anti-government protests. In a statement, China&#8217;s military said the &#8220;annual normal routine action&#8221; had been carried out with the approval of the Central&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}