{"id":8514,"date":"2022-08-03T14:19:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8514"},"modified":"2022-08-03T14:19:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:19:22","slug":"xi-jinping-asserts-his-power-on-hong-kongs-handover-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8514","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping asserts his power on Hong Kong\u2019s handover anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Lee\u2019s tenure \u2014 and Xi\u2019s support for it \u2014 mark a low point for civil rights and political freedom in Hong Kong. They also show Xi\u2019s disdain for global human rights norms and a growinggeopolitical divide between East and West, Lai said. \u201cXi Jinping\u2019s vision is not to bring China in line\u201d with those norms, he told Vox, but to assert dominance in places like Hong Kong and Taiwan, which threaten to provide alternative visions of political and social life. \u201cHong Kong seems to be the lesson.\u201d&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2022\/7\/2\/23192550\/xi-hong-kong-john-lee-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2022\/7\/2\/23192550\/xi-hong-kong-john-lee-china<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lee\u2019s tenure \u2014 and Xi\u2019s support for it \u2014 mark a low point for civil rights and political freedom in Hong Kong. They also show Xi\u2019s disdain for global human rights norms and a growing geopolitical divide between East and West, Lai said. \u201cXi Jinping\u2019s vision is not to bring China in line\u201d with those norms, he told Vox, but to assert dominance in places like Hong Kong and Taiwan, which threaten to provide alternative visions of political and social life. \u201cHong Kong seems to be the lesson.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,89,660,581,314,333,1701],"class_list":["post-8514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-china","tag-dictatorship","tag-hong-kong","tag-international-relations","tag-taiwan","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8515,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions\/8515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}