{"id":23722,"date":"2020-10-12T16:10:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T07:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/12\/hong-kong-chief-executive-postpones-major-policy-speech-carrie-lam-china"},"modified":"2020-10-12T18:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T09:22:40","slug":"hong-kong-chief-executive-postpones-major-policy-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23722","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong chief executive postpones key policy speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam to consult Beijing in attempt to protect city\u2019s status as international finance hub<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive, Carrie Lam, has postponed a key annual policy address scheduled for Wednesday, claiming she must consult Beijing on some of her proposals.<\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented delay to the speech was also attributed to plans by the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2014\/jun\/13\/inside-shenzen-china-silicon-valley-tech-nirvana-pearl-river\">visit Shenzhen<\/a> to mark the 40th anniversary of the special economic zone on Wednesday, which was announced only on Monday and which Lam would also attend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/12\/hong-kong-chief-executive-postpones-major-policy-speech-carrie-lam-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam to consult Beijing in attempt to protect city\u2019s status as international finance hubHong Kong\u2019s chief executive, Carrie Lam, has postponed a key annual policy address scheduled for Wednesday, claiming she must consult Beijing on some of her p&#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":[41,6,555,50,556,48,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-chinese-economy","category-hong-kong","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23722","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=23722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23734,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23722\/revisions\/23734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}