{"id":12972,"date":"2020-01-16T17:26:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T08:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/16\/hong-kong-could-keep-semi-autonomy-for-longer-says-lam"},"modified":"2020-01-16T17:26:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T08:26:43","slug":"hong-kong-could-keep-semi-autonomy-for-longer-says-lam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12972","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong could keep semi-autonomy for longer, says Lam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader says \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 deal could continue if city shows loyalty to China<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, has said the \u201cone country, two systems\u201d framework under which the city is meant to enjoy autonomy from China could be extended beyond 2047 if loyalty to Beijing is upheld.<\/p>\n<p>In her first appearance at the Legislative Council since October, Lam answered a question from a lawmaker about what might happen in 2047, the year the semi-autonomous territory is meant to return to Chinese rule.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/16\/hong-kong-could-keep-semi-autonomy-for-longer-says-lam\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader says \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 deal could continue if city shows loyalty to ChinaHong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, has said the \u201cone country, two systems\u201d framework under which the city is meant to enjoy autonomy from China could be extended beyo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"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-12972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972","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\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12973,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972\/revisions\/12973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}