{"id":17394,"date":"2021-08-07T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=17394"},"modified":"2021-08-07T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T02:00:14","slug":"battle-for-democracy-india-hong-kong-and-bidens-china-bogeyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=17394","title":{"rendered":"Battle for democracy: India, Hong Kong and Biden\u2019s China bogeyman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIt\u2019s hard to imagine today, but there was a time not so long ago in Hong Kong when the biggest political story in town was unsanctioned home improvement.In early 2012, a bureaucrat who aspired to be the city\u2019s chief executive was caught hiding a fancy basement under his swimming pool, complete with an entertainment suite, a jacuzzi and a wine cellar. A media frenzy erupted. Eagle-eyed reporters kept vigil outside his home, their cameras mounted on cranes watching his home 24\/7, and political\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3144143\/battle-democracy-india-hong-kong-and-bidens-china-bogeyman?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIt\u2019s hard to imagine today, but there was a time not so long ago in Hong Kong when the biggest political story in town&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17394"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}