{"id":41698,"date":"2019-11-25T08:22:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T08:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41698"},"modified":"2019-11-25T08:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T08:22:13","slug":"hong-kongers-show-not-only-the-depths-of-their-discontent-but-also-their-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41698","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kongers show not only the depths of their discontent, but also their power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite><a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/hongkongprotests\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong&#8217;s protest movement<\/a> grabbed the world&#8217;s attention with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/06\/16\/asia\/hong-kong-protest-carrie-lam-china-extradition-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">million-strong rallies<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/11\/11\/asia\/hong-kong-protests-dramatic-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">city-stopping unrest<\/a>. But it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/11\/24\/asia\/hong-kong-district-council-elections-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">won big on the weekend<\/a> by staying silent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The landslide victory for pro-democracy candidates in Sunday&#8217;s district council elections is a stinging rebuke to the city&#8217;s government &#8212; and an example of what protesters can achieve given the opportunity. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">By avoiding unrest and trusting voters to support them, protesters scored a bigger victory than if they had disrupted the polls. They also demonstrated that far from devolving into anarchy, as some on the government side have claimed, the protest movement can &#8212; unlike the police, Beijing or the city&#8217;s leaders &#8212; control when and where the unrest takes place. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)Hong Kong&#8217;s protest movement grabbed the world&#8217;s attention with million-strong rallies and city-stopping unrest. But it won big on the weekend by staying silent.The landslide victory for pro-democracy candidates in Sunday&#8217;s district council elections is a stinging rebuke to the city&#8217;s government &#8212; and an example of what protesters can achieve given the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41698","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\/41698","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=41698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}