{"id":45615,"date":"2017-07-10T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=45615"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:15","slug":"burton-hong-kong-and-the-litany-of-beijings-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/07\/burton-hong-kong-and-the-litany-of-beijings-betrayal\/","title":{"rendered":"BURTON: Hong Kong, and the litany of Beijing\u2019s betrayal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political Science Associate Professor Charles Burton writes about Hong Kong&#8217;s modern history and its struggles with Beijing in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/hong-kong-and-the-litany-of-beijings-betrayal\/article35513064\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent piece published in The Globe and Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Burton writes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><em>Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s visit to Hong Kong, marking 20 years since it was returned to China from British rule, has been met by a fierce security lockdown, hordes of protesters, thousands of armed police and the arrests of political activists.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><em>On this milestone anniversary, Hong Kong is reeling as it is dragged deeper into a status whose blueprint is a string of broken promises by Beijing.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><em>Hong Kong\u2019s modern history has been unorthodox, a free-wheeling but Westernized speck on a decidedly undemocratic regional map. It had been ceded to the U.K. in 1842 after China lost a war that was waged to defend Britain\u2019s continuing exports of India\u2019s opium (after China had outlawed its use).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/hong-kong-and-the-litany-of-beijings-betrayal\/article35513064\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Science Associate Professor Charles Burton writes about Hong Kong&#8217;s modern history and its struggles with Beijing in a recent piece published in The Globe and Mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[4008,486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45615"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45639,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45615\/revisions\/45639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}