{"id":25088,"date":"2020-11-25T15:05:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T06:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/25\/remarkably-effective-carrie-lam-praises-hong-kong-national-security-law-in-annual-address"},"modified":"2020-11-25T15:05:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T06:05:32","slug":"remarkably-effective-carrie-lam-praises-hong-kong-national-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25088","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Remarkably effective&#8217;: Carrie Lam praises Hong Kong national security law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief executive says in annual address the city\u2019s problems driven by \u2018external forces\u2019 and pandemic<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive, Carrie Lam, has defended the crackdown on opposition by her government and Beijing, and praised the widely criticised national security law \u2013 while seeking to blame the city\u2019s woes on foreign interference and the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Lam\u2019s annual policy address \u2013 which was postponed from October to allow for further consultation with Beijing \u2013 was delivered on Wednesday to a legislative council without its opposition members after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/14\/hong-kong-politicians-face-pro-democracy-exodus\">mass resignation<\/a> of the pro-democracy caucus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/25\/remarkably-effective-carrie-lam-praises-hong-kong-national-security-law-in-annual-address\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief executive says in annual address the city\u2019s problems driven by \u2018external forces\u2019 and pandemicHong Kong\u2019s chief executive, Carrie Lam, has defended the crackdown on opposition by her government and Beijing, and praised the widely criticised nation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25088","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25089,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25088\/revisions\/25089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}