{"id":25180,"date":"2020-11-28T14:18:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T05:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/28\/hong-kong-carrie-lam-cash-bank-account-us-sanctions"},"modified":"2020-11-28T14:18:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T05:18:25","slug":"piles-of-cash-at-home-hong-kong-leader-says-us-sanctions-mean-she-has-no-bank-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25180","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Piles of cash at home\u2019: Hong Kong leader says US sanctions mean she has no bank account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam says she is paid in cash and calls US sanctions imposed over security crackdown \u2018unjustifiable\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said she keeps \u201cpiles of cash\u201d at home because she has no bank account after the United States imposed sanctions on her in response to the crackdown on free speech and political freedoms in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Lam was targeted, along with 14 other senior city officials, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/07\/carrie-lam-us-sanctions-trump-hong-kong-security-law\">toughest US action on Hong Kong yet<\/a> since Beijing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/china-passes-controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law\">imposed the new law<\/a> on the territory in late June.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/28\/hong-kong-carrie-lam-cash-bank-account-us-sanctions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam says she is paid in cash and calls US sanctions imposed over security crackdown \u2018unjustifiable\u2019Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said she keeps \u201cpiles of cash\u201d at home because she has no bank account after the United States imposed sanctions o&#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":[41,555,50,48,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25180","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=25180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25181,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25180\/revisions\/25181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}