{"id":99754,"date":"2019-07-01T03:59:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T01:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/01\/hong-kong-braces-for-huge-protests-on-anniversary-of-china-handover-live\/"},"modified":"2019-07-01T03:59:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T01:59:50","slug":"hong-kong-braces-for-huge-protests-on-anniversary-of-china-handover-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=99754","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong braces for huge protests on anniversary of China handover \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Beijing protesters block key streets as key date marking 1997 transition coincides with anger about controversial extradition lawFull story: Anti-government protests underway in Hong Kong on anniversary 2.59am BST Here\u2019s more on Carrie Lam\u2019s speech from Christy Choi.In her speech marking the 22nd anniversary of Hong Kong\u2019s return to Chinese rule, Chief Executive Carrie Lam offered an apology, saying she knew that the government has \u201ca lot to improve.\u201d\u201cThis has made me fully realise that I, as a politician, have to remind myself all the time of the need to grasp public sentiments accurately,\u201d she said. 2.40am BST Hong Kong\u2019s leader says a series of protests that have rocked her city have taught her that she needs to listen better to the youth and people in general. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2019\/jul\/01\/hong-kong-braces-for-huge-protests-on-anniversary-of-china-handover-live\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong braces for huge protests on anniversary of China handover \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Beijing protesters block key streets as key date marking 1997 transition coincides with anger about controversial extradition lawFull story: Anti-government protests underway in Hong Kong on anniversary 2.59am BST Here\u2019s more on Carrie Lam\u2019s speech from Christy Choi.In her speech marking the 22nd anniversary of Hong Kong\u2019s return to Chinese [&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-99754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99754","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=99754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}