{"id":41111,"date":"2019-10-08T02:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T02:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41111"},"modified":"2019-10-08T02:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T02:23:02","slug":"hong-kong-could-be-at-tipping-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41111","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong could be at &#8216;tipping point&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>The Chinese military garrison in Hong Kong offered a rare public reaction in the face of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/06\/asia\/hong-kong-unrest-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">taunts from protesters<\/a> Sunday, as violence escalated across the city over the weekend.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Video from Hong Kong <a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1484628-20191006.htm\" target=\"_blank\">public broadcaster RTHK<\/a> shows a yellow flag raised from atop a People&#8217;s Liberation Army (PLA) building in Kowloon Tong, in north Kowloon, warning protesters they could be prosecuted if they continued to approach the barracks. The flag appears to be <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/asia\/live-news\/hong-kong-july-1-protests-intl-hnk\/h_30e817bb7494670f9f014724f81c5d93\" target=\"_blank\">similar to those<\/a> used by police during protests. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Half a dozen personnel could be seen standing on top of the barracks shining flashlights at dozens of protesters below, who were aiming laser pointers and other lights at the building. The incident is believed to be the first known interaction between the PLA and protesters during 18 weeks of anti-government demonstrations. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)The Chinese military garrison in Hong Kong offered a rare public reaction in the face of taunts from protesters Sunday, as violence escalated across the city over the weekend.Video from Hong Kong public broadcaster RTHK shows a yellow flag raised from atop a People&#8217;s Liberation Army (PLA) building in Kowloon Tong, in north&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41111","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\/41111","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=41111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}