{"id":43231,"date":"2022-04-04T12:56:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T03:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/04\/hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-says-she-will-not-seek-second-term"},"modified":"2022-04-04T19:51:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T10:51:18","slug":"hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-says-she-will-not-seek-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43231","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says she will not seek second term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief executive to leave office at end of June after five years marked by upheavals of anti-government protests<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, who has governed the Chinese region since 2017, has announced she will not seek a second five-year term of office.<\/p>\n<p>Lam\u2019s tenure as the chief executive of one of Asia\u2019s most significant financial hubs has been marked by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/16\/from-packed-streets-to-silence-documenting-hong-kong-authoritarianism\">upheavals of anti-government protests<\/a> and, more recently, Covid-19. Critics have accused her of helping Beijing to curtail Hong Kong\u2019s freedoms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/04\/hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-says-she-will-not-seek-second-term\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief executive to leave office at end of June after five years marked by upheavals of anti-government protestsHong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, who has governed the Chinese region since 2017, has announced she will not seek a second five-year term of of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-43231","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\/43231","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43242,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43231\/revisions\/43242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}