{"id":769,"date":"2005-12-18T23:55:06","date_gmt":"2005-12-18T15:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/blog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2005-12-19T11:49:34","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T03:49:34","slug":"hong-kong-phooey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/2005\/12\/18\/hong-kong-phooey\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong phooey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"mlq3\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/2005\/12\/18\/hong-kong-phooey\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/curbside.jmsc.org\/gallery2\/d\/726-2\/IMG_1507.JPG\" height=\"329\" width=\"219\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 1507\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Several views of the anti-WTO riots in Hong Kong: from <a href=\"http:\/\/allecoallende.blogs.friendster.com\/my_blog\/2005\/12\/hong_kong_weath.html\">a National Democratic protester<\/a>; from <a href=\"http:\/\/flagrantharbour.com\/?p=84\">a Hong Kong resident<\/a> (The Hong Kong consensus: enough!arrest them! all! and <a href=\"http:\/\/flagrantharbour.com\/?p=85\">stop issuing stupid press releases<\/a> -one commenter, in response to a commenter criticizing the post, asks, &#8220;perhaps you belong to a Communist-sponsored NGO from the Philippines&#8221; ); from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/urthona\/181482.html\">another Hong Kong resident<\/a> on the &#8220;Siege of Wan Chai&#8221;; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartblog.com\/data\/004623.html\">blogger got tear gassed<\/a> (the entry suggests something interesting -that nations formerly against the WTO have hopped on the bandwagon); from <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rationalchoice.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/down-but-not-out.html\">an economist<\/a><\/span> (apparently not an economist,m so perhaps, an activist??) who didn&#8217;t go, and from <a href=\"http:\/\/paseoblur.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/running-through-my-hk-notes-on-sunday.html\">an economist who did<\/a> (very interesting background tidbits). A good <a href=\"http:\/\/twokoreas.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/hong-kong-breaking-news.html\">roundup of events is here<\/a> (and of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/simonworld.mu.nu\/\">Simon World<\/a> has day-by-day coverage). Also interesting: <a href=\"http:\/\/armwoodnews.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/chinese-pressing-to-keep-village.html\">China tries to prevent the mainland from hearing about what happened<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Metro Manila should host a WTO event, no one would lift an eyebrow and it would save the usual suspects precious foreign exchange. (Photo from T<em>he Standard<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:nowrap\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/tarpipe.com\/js\/widget.js\">{title:\"Hong Kong phooey\",url:\"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/2005\/12\/18\/hong-kong-phooey\/\"}<\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four views of the anti-WTO riots in Hong Kong: from a National Democratic protester; from a Hong Kong resident (enough!arrest them!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 all!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 and stop issuing stupid press releases -one commenter, in response to a commenter criticizing the post, asks, &#8220;perhaps you belong to a Communist-sponsored NGO from the Philippines&#8221; ); from an economist who didn&#8217;t go, and from an economist who did (very interesting background tidbits).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"textwp-1130w-autoh-image":false,"textwp-760w-autoh-image":false,"textwp-100w-100h-image":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Manuel L. 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