{"id":21688,"date":"2020-08-15T09:38:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T00:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/the-press-has-to-go-on-hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-defies-beijing"},"modified":"2020-08-15T09:38:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T00:38:38","slug":"the-press-has-to-go-on-hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-defies-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21688","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The press has to go on&#8217;: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai defies Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Daily founder and pro democracy activist says his case will likely be a \u2018litmus test\u2019 of Hong Kong\u2019s legal system<\/p>\n<p>Wary but defiant, Jimmy Lai is determined to keep fighting for a democratic Hong Kong, even as he acknowledges that China\u2019s goal is to take full control of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Guardian five days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/10\/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-arrested-over-alleged-foreign-collusion\">his arrest on foreign collusion allegations<\/a> \u2013 he is currently out on bail &#8211; media tycoon Lai argues the press must keep going. But he also believes that Monday\u2019s round up was a warning from Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/the-press-has-to-go-on-hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-defies-beijing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Daily founder and pro democracy activist says his case will likely be a \u2018litmus test\u2019 of Hong Kong\u2019s legal systemWary but defiant, Jimmy Lai is determined to keep fighting for a democratic Hong Kong, even as he acknowledges that China\u2019s goal is t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,50,48,238,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-media","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\/21688","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21689,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21688\/revisions\/21689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}