{"id":2900,"date":"2014-09-04T18:49:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T18:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2014-09-04T18:49:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T18:49:04","slug":"hong-kong-may-find-unexpected-support-from-mainland-netizens-for-its-fight-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/hong-kong-may-find-unexpected-support-from-mainland-netizens-for-its-fight-for-democracy","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong may find unexpected support from mainland netizens for its fight for democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/09\/6-150x150.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/09\/b-150x150.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/09\/6-150x150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6-150x150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/09\/6-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">Alia | September 3rd, 2014 &#8211; 9:47 pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The divide between Hong Kong <!--more-->locals and their mainland counterparts is sometimes larger than their physical distance, with Hong Kongers calling mainland tourists \u201clocusts\u201d, and mainlanders calling Hong Kongers \u201cunappreciative sour grades who cannot get over their loss of advantage over mainland.\u201d Despite the mutual hostility, however, quest for democracy may be the one thing that binds the two camps.<\/p>\n<p>6This past Sunday, the Standing Committee of China\u2019s National People\u2019s Congress issued restrictive guidelines for the election of Hong Kong\u2019s next chief executive in 2017. Instead of giving in to calls for universal suffrage by Hong Kong activists (Occupy Central), China pushed a plan by which nominees must be vetted and approved by more than half of a committee who has largely been under the control of Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, no one is sure about how things will unfold in the near further as one leader of the Occupy Central activists declared de facto defeat. But the announcement, and the events that follow, will surely have an impact that reaches beyond Hong Kong into mainland.<\/p>\n<p>The struggles of Hong Kong activists didn\u2019t receive nearly as much media attention as it did outside of China\u2019s great wall of censorship, but mainland netizens are just as opinionated. Surprisingly, many side with the activists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/offbeatchina.com\/hong-kong-may-find-unexpected-support-from-mainland-netizens-for-its-fight-for-democracy\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alia | September 3rd, 2014 &#8211; 9:47  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/hong-kong-may-find-unexpected-support-from-mainland-netizens-for-its-fight-for-democracy\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,370],"tags":[317,90,477],"views":2762,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2903,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}