{"id":565,"date":"2019-11-04T21:30:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T21:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/?p=565"},"modified":"2019-11-04T21:30:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T21:30:45","slug":"update-on-hong-kong-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/2019\/11\/04\/update-on-hong-kong-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Hong Kong Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend was particularly violent in the district of Hong Kong, with protesters continuing to clash against the government and police since June this year. In one incident a man injured four pro democracy protesters with a knife, while in a separate incident a local Democratic Party politician Andrew Chiu had part of his ear bitten off by an attacker. The protesters of Hong Kong continue to show their support for the United States; utilizing American slogans and imagery to invoke a pro Hong Kong response from the US.<\/p>\n<p>I believe it&#8217;s in the US&#8217;s best interest to openly support and defend Hong Kong from mainland China. In my recent blogpost I discussed how a simple pro democracy tweet from NBA General Manager Darrel Morey set off a swath of anger in China. Causing multimillion dollar contracts to be ripped up and the Chinese government demanding apologies from US companies. If China sees a single tweet as a threat to their way of life, how threatened do you think they are by &#8220;radical&#8221; western practices such as freedom of speech and personal liberty. Hong Kong needs to be preserved as a safe haven to not only the current population, but to future generations looking for an escape from the communist way of life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sources: https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2019\/11\/04\/china-warns-hong-kong-after-weekend-of-violence\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnmauldin\/2019\/11\/04\/china-is-an-underrated-threat-to-the-world\/#7efbf3476d8d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend was particularly violent in the district of Hong Kong, with protesters continuing to clash against the government and police since June this year. In one incident a man injured four pro democracy protesters with a knife, while in a separate incident a local Democratic Party politician Andrew Chiu had part of his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/2019\/11\/04\/update-on-hong-kong-protests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update on Hong Kong Protests&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}