{"id":12654,"date":"2020-01-06T15:58:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T06:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/06\/chinas-new-top-hong-kong-official-hopes-city-will-return-to-right-path"},"modified":"2020-01-06T15:58:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T06:58:56","slug":"chinas-new-top-hong-kong-official-hopes-city-will-return-to-right-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12654","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s new top Hong Kong official hopes city will return to &#8216;right path&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luo Huining, newly installed head of Beijing\u2019s liaison office, gave little away in his first public statement<\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s new top envoy to Hong Kong has said he hoped the protest-ravaged city would \u201creturn to the right path\u201d in his first statement since taking up his post.<\/p>\n<p>Luo Huining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/04\/china-replaces-top-hong-kong-official-as-protests-enter-eighth-month\">replaced Wang Zhimin as head of Beijing\u2019s liaison office in Hong Kong<\/a> \u2013 the most significant personnel change by China since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/01\/new-years-day-rally-hong-kong\">violent pro-democracy protests<\/a> erupted in the city nearly seven months ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/06\/chinas-new-top-hong-kong-official-hopes-city-will-return-to-right-path\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luo Huining, newly installed head of Beijing\u2019s liaison office, gave little away in his first public statementBeijing\u2019s new top envoy to Hong Kong has said he hoped the protest-ravaged city would \u201creturn to the right path\u201d in his first statement since t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,48,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12655,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654\/revisions\/12655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}