{"id":94487,"date":"2019-08-05T15:02:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T22:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/beijing-is-prepping-for-a-massacre-in-hong-kong-time-for-the-west-to-put-human-rights-ahead-of-free-trade"},"modified":"2019-08-05T15:02:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T22:02:42","slug":"beijing-is-prepping-for-a-massacre-in-hong-kong-time-for-the-west-to-put-human-rights-ahead-of-free-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/beijing-is-prepping-for-a-massacre-in-hong-kong-time-for-the-west-to-put-human-rights-ahead-of-free-trade","title":{"rendered":"Beijing is prepping for a massacre in Hong Kong: time for the West to put human rights ahead of free trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beijing-is-prepping-for-a-massacre-in-hong-kong-time-for-the-west-to-put-human-rights-ahead-of-free-trade.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After eight weeks of huge Hong Kong street protests against Beijing\u2019s rule, the People\u2019s Republic is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/07\/30\/us-monitoring-hong-kong-border-as-chinese-forces-gather-en-masse\/\">massing police and soldiers<\/a> just across the border. Message: If the protesters don\u2019t quit, a bloodbath is coming.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has also started denouncing the protests as the work of American provocateurs. That\u2019s so the regime can paint its Tiananmen Square-style crackdown as a battle against \u201cforeign influence,\u201d not a smashing of Chinese people who decided all on their own that they\u2019d rather be free.<\/p>\n<p>A quarter-century ago, the West wagered that welcoming China into the world economy would seduce the Communist Party into allowing ever-more freedom. That bet\u2019s been lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After eight weeks of huge Hong Kong street protests against Beijing\u2019s rule, the People\u2019s Republic is massing police and soldiers just across the border. Message: If the protesters don\u2019t quit, a bloodbath is coming. Beijing has also started denouncing the protests as the work of American provocateurs. That\u2019s so the regime can paint its Tiananmen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}