{"id":10552,"date":"2019-10-29T13:07:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T04:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/29\/carrie-lam-says-she-will-tackle-violence-head-on-as-recession-hits-hong-kong"},"modified":"2019-10-29T13:07:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T04:07:17","slug":"carrie-lam-says-she-will-tackle-violence-head-on-as-recession-hits-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10552","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Lam says she will &#8216;tackle violence head on&#8217; as recession hits Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief executive denies Beijing is planning to replace her and says she will \u2018handle the situation\u2019<\/p>\n<p>After five months of protests, Hong Kong\u2019s embattled leader Carrie Lam has said her government will \u201ctackle the violence head on\u201d as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/28\/hong-kong-in-recession-after-protests-deal-comprehensive-blow\">Asian financial hub slips into a recession<\/a>, its first since the global financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Lam said she expected Hong Kong to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/28\/hong-kong-in-recession-after-protests-deal-comprehensive-blow\">register negative growth<\/a> for the full year of 2019. Last week, the government said it would spend HK$2bn ($255m) to support sectors hit by the protests, following a previous HK$19.1bn ($2.4bn) relief package.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/29\/carrie-lam-says-she-will-tackle-violence-head-on-as-recession-hits-hong-kong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief executive denies Beijing is planning to replace her and says she will \u2018handle the situation\u2019After five months of protests, Hong Kong\u2019s embattled leader Carrie Lam has said her government will \u201ctackle the violence head on\u201d as the Asian financial h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,555,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10553,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552\/revisions\/10553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}