{"id":44266,"date":"2022-05-08T15:48:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T06:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/08\/john-lee-hong-kong-security-chief-who-oversaw-pro-democracy-crackdown-anointed-new-leader"},"modified":"2022-05-08T23:28:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T14:28:40","slug":"john-lee-ex-hong-kong-security-chief-who-oversaw-pro-democracy-crackdown-anointed-new-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44266","title":{"rendered":"EU voices concerns as former Hong Kong security chief made new leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears grow that elevation of John Lee signals  Beijing\u2019s tough policy on Hong Kong is set to continue<\/p>\n<p>The European Union has condemned the appointment of Hong Kong\u2019s former security tsar, who oversaw the crackdown on Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy movement, as the Chinese territory\u2019s new chief executive with 99% of the vote in a secret ballot on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Josep Borrell, the bloc\u2019s foreign policy chief, said the selection process that led to John Lee being elected is yet \u201canother step in the dismantling of the \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 principle\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/08\/john-lee-hong-kong-security-chief-who-oversaw-pro-democracy-crackdown-anointed-new-leader\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears grow that elevation of John Lee signals  Beijing\u2019s tough policy on Hong Kong is set to continueThe European Union has condemned the appointment of Hong Kong\u2019s former security tsar, who oversaw the crackdown on Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy movement, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2121,"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-44266","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\/44266","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\/2121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44275,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44266\/revisions\/44275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}