{"id":97189,"date":"2019-06-13T03:21:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T01:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/13\/hong-kong-protests-government-leader-carrie-lam-condemns-blatant-riot\/"},"modified":"2019-06-13T03:21:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T01:21:32","slug":"hong-kong-protests-government-leader-carrie-lam-condemns-blatant-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=97189","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: government leader Carrie Lam condemns &#039;blatant riot&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lam denies she is \u2018selling out\u2019 to Beijing as Chinese state media say protests are pushing the city \u2018towards backwardness\u2019Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive Carrie Lam has condemned protesters for \u201cdangerous and life threatening acts\u201d during a mass demonstration over a controversial bill that allows extradition to the Chinese mainland.Lam, who is championing the proposed law\u2019s passage, noted that some young people in the crowd had expressed their views peacefully, but said the protest had devolved into a \u201cblatant, organised riot.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jun\/13\/hong-kong-protests-extradition-carrie-lam-riot-police\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong protests: government leader Carrie Lam condemns &#039;blatant riot&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lam denies she is \u2018selling out\u2019 to Beijing as Chinese state media say protests are pushing the city \u2018towards backwardness\u2019Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive Carrie Lam has condemned protesters for \u201cdangerous and life threatening acts\u201d during a mass demonstration over a controversial bill that allows extradition to the Chinese mainland.Lam, who [&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-97189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97189","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=97189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}