{"id":41049,"date":"2019-10-03T03:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T03:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41049"},"modified":"2019-10-03T03:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T03:22:27","slug":"as-hong-kong-descended-into-chaos-beijing-hardly-noticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41049","title":{"rendered":"As Hong Kong descended into chaos, Beijing hardly noticed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Beijing (CNN)<\/cite>In the tightly-censored bubble of state-run media and restricted internet, Beijing locals enjoyed their October 1 National Day seemingly unaware that in Hong Kong, which is Chinese territory, police and protesters were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/asia\/live-news\/china-hong-kong-oct-1-live-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">fighting in the streets.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">People did take to Beijing&#8217;s streets later in the evening &#8212; but it was only to get a better view of the massive fireworks display over Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, part of the celebrations to mark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/09\/30\/asia\/china-oct-1-national-day-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">70 years of the People&#8217;s Republic of China.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">It was a <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/01\/asia\/hong-kong-china-protests-national-day-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">stark contrast <\/a>that made headlines around the world &#8212; the order and pomp of Beijing versus the rage of Hong Kong&#8217;s demonstrators, with one protester even shot by police in a confrontation. It was the <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/01\/asia\/hong-kong-china-protests-national-day-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">first time lethal force<\/a> had been used in 17 weeks of demonstrations.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing (CNN)In the tightly-censored bubble of state-run media and restricted internet, Beijing locals enjoyed their October 1 National Day seemingly unaware that in Hong Kong, which is Chinese territory, police and protesters were fighting in the streets.People did take to Beijing&#8217;s streets later in the evening &#8212; but it was only to get a better&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41049","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\/41049","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=41049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}