{"id":287102,"date":"2019-08-13T06:03:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T06:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=287102"},"modified":"2019-08-13T06:03:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T06:03:30","slug":"china-slams-hong-kong-violence-as-terrorism-airport-cancels-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-slams-hong-kong-violence-as-terrorism-airport-cancels-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"China slams Hong Kong violence as &#8216;terrorism&#8217;; airport cancels operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China on Monday slammed violent protesters in Hong Kong who had thrown petrol bombs at police officers and linked them to &#8220;terrorism&#8221;, as Beijing ramps up its rhetoric against pro-democracy demonstrations in the financial hub.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hong Kong&#8217;s radical demonstrators have repeatedly used extremely dangerous tools to attack police officers, which already constitutes a serious violent crime, and also shows the first signs of terrorism emerging,&#8221; said Yang Guang, spokesman for the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This wantonly tramples on Hong Kong&#8217;s rule of law and social order,&#8221; he said at a press briefing in Beijing. <\/p>\n<p>Yang&#8217;s remarks came a day after thousands of pro-democracy protesters defied warnings from authorities to hit the streets for the 10th weekend in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China on Monday slammed violent protesters in Hong Kong who had thrown petrol bombs at police officers and linked them to &#8220;terrorism&#8221;, as Beijing ramps up its rhetoric against pro-democracy demonstrations in the financial hub. &#8220;Hong Kong&#8217;s radical demonstrators have repeatedly used extremely dangerous tools to attack police officers, which already constitutes a serious violent crime, and also shows the first signs of terrorism emerging,&#8221; said Yang Guang, spokesman for the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council. &#8220;This wantonly tramples on Hong Kong&#8217;s rule of law and social order,&#8221; he said at a press briefing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}