{"id":43315,"date":"2022-04-06T23:57:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/06\/hong-kong-security-official-to-stand-as-chief-executive"},"modified":"2022-04-06T23:57:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:57:27","slug":"hong-kong-security-official-to-stand-as-chief-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43315","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong security official to stand as chief executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Lee\u2019s bid for top political post is sign of the growing influence of security officials <\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong chief secretary John Lee, a security official during the global financial hub\u2019s prolonged and often violent 2019 pro-democracy protests, has resigned in a bid to run in an election in May to become the city\u2019s new leader.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, 64, a former deputy commissioner of police, was promoted to the role in 2021 in a move that some political analysts said showed Beijing\u2019s priorities for Hong Kong were security rather than the economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/06\/hong-kong-security-official-to-stand-as-chief-executive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lee\u2019s bid for top political post is sign of the growing influence of security officials Hong Kong chief secretary John Lee, a security official during the global financial hub\u2019s prolonged and often violent 2019 pro-democracy protests, has resigned&#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":[41,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/43315","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=43315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43316,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43315\/revisions\/43316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}