{"id":109159,"date":"2019-09-07T02:55:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T00:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/07\/hong-kong-angela-merkel-says-china-must-guarantee-rights-and-freedoms\/"},"modified":"2019-09-07T02:55:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T00:55:59","slug":"hong-kong-angela-merkel-says-china-must-guarantee-rights-and-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=109159","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: Angela Merkel says China must &#039;guarantee&#039; rights and freedoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018In the current situation, everything must be done to avoid violence,\u2019 German chancellor says in BeijingThe German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has said the rights and freedoms of people in Hong Kong \u201cmust be guaranteed\u201d after meeting with the Chinese premier, Li Keqiang, in Beijing.Hong Kong has faced months of pro-democracy protests, and ahead of Merkels three-day visit to China this week demonstrators in the semi-autonomous city appealed to the German chancellor to support them in her meetings with China\u2019s leaders. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/07\/hong-kong-angela-merkel-says-china-must-guarantee-rights-and-freedoms-in\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong: Angela Merkel says China must &#039;guarantee&#039; rights and freedoms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018In the current situation, everything must be done to avoid violence,\u2019 German chancellor says in BeijingThe German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has said the rights and freedoms of people in Hong Kong \u201cmust be guaranteed\u201d after meeting with the Chinese premier, Li Keqiang, in Beijing.Hong Kong has faced months of pro-democracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}