{"id":49472,"date":"2022-10-20T01:35:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T16:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/19\/hong-kong-leader-aims-to-attract-talent-but-vows-further-crackdown"},"modified":"2022-10-20T01:35:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T16:35:57","slug":"hong-kong-leader-aims-to-attract-talent-but-vows-further-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49472","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong leader aims to attract talent but vows further crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Lee pledges to enact anti-subversion law while emphasising need to alleviate brain drain<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s new leader has pledged to enact an anti-subversion law, tighten up cybersecurity and crack down on false information and crowdfunding activities, after China\u2019s Xi Jinping issued calls to reinforce national security.<\/p>\n<p>In his first policy address since becoming the city\u2019s chief executive in July, John Lee also emphasised the need to \u201cproactively trawl the world for talents\u201d to help alleviate a brain drain, acknowledging that the local workforce had shrunk by about 140,000 in the last two years, after a national security law came to force.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/19\/hong-kong-leader-aims-to-attract-talent-but-vows-further-crackdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lee pledges to enact anti-subversion law while emphasising need to alleviate brain drainHong Kong\u2019s new leader has pledged to enact an anti-subversion law, tighten up cybersecurity and crack down on false information and crowdfunding activities, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"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":[41,50,48,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49472","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49473,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49472\/revisions\/49473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}