{"id":210542,"date":"2025-12-02T01:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/210542\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T01:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:08:08","slug":"hong-kongs-response-to-deadly-fire-is-squeezed-by-chinas-firm-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/210542\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s Response to Deadly Fire Is Squeezed by China\u2019s Firm Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">The <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/asia\/the-deadly-mix-of-factors-that-made-a-hong-kong-high-rise-fire-so-devastating-8a478821?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fire in a Hong Kong high-rise<\/a> last week was followed by an outpouring of support for victims and official efforts to control the public response, including a threat to arrest those who direct their anger over the tragedy at the government.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">It was a display of how the once-freewheeling city of Hong Kong has been brought to heel by strict national-security laws and Beijing\u2019s growing control.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">The fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon and engulfed seven of eight towers in the Wang Fuk Court housing complex. It wasn\u2019t brought under control until more than 24 hours later. At least 151 people died and many of the complex\u2019s 4,600 residents, including seniors who had lived there for decades, lost their homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92025 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fire in a Hong Kong high-rise last week was followed by an outpouring of support for victims&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[22366,2786,10852,115141,115136,79,381,115143,82654,22367,115135,22082,179,18,82653,115142,3334,42299,4202,19,17,115140,115139,115138,18270,109157,36227,9436,44285,109158,83893,44289,115144,115137,26243,41580],"class_list":{"0":"post-210542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-accidents","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-asia-pacific","11":"tag-building-fires","12":"tag-building-fires-explosions-collapses","13":"tag-business","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-collapses","16":"tag-developing-economies","17":"tag-disasters","18":"tag-disasters-accidents","19":"tag-east-asia","20":"tag-economy","21":"tag-eire","22":"tag-emerging-market-countries","23":"tag-explosions","24":"tag-general-news","25":"tag-greater-china","26":"tag-hong-kong","27":"tag-ie","28":"tag-ireland","29":"tag-linki1-wp-wsj-0003147320","30":"tag-linki3-wp-wsj-0003147320","31":"tag-linki4-wp-wsj-0003147320","32":"tag-national","33":"tag-national-public-security","34":"tag-policies","35":"tag-political","36":"tag-political-general-news","37":"tag-public-security","38":"tag-risk-topics","39":"tag-risk-topics-regulations-regulators","40":"tag-state-security-measures","41":"tag-state-security-measures-policies","42":"tag-synd","43":"tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}