{"id":8413,"date":"2019-09-03T03:07:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T18:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2019\/sep\/02\/carrie-lam-says-she-would-quit-as-hong-kong-ceo-if-she-had-a-choice-audio"},"modified":"2019-09-03T03:07:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T18:07:46","slug":"carrie-lam-says-she-would-quit-as-hong-kong-ceo-if-she-had-a-choice-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8413","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Lam says she would quit as Hong Kong CEO if she had a choice \u2013\u00a0audio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The embattled Hong Kong leader, Carrie Lam, said she has caused \u2018unforgivable havoc\u2019 by igniting the political crisis engulfing the city and would quit if she had a choice, according to a leaked audio recording of remarks she made last week to a group of businesspeople.<\/p>\n<p>Lam admitted she now has \u2018very limited\u2019 options to resolve the crisis because the unrest has become a national security and sovereignty issue for China amid rising tensions with the United States.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/02\/hong-kong-carrie-lam-would-quit-if-had-choice-leaked-audio\">Hong Kong: I would quit if I had choice, says leader in leaked audio<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2019\/sep\/02\/carrie-lam-says-she-would-quit-as-hong-kong-ceo-if-she-had-a-choice-audio\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The embattled Hong Kong leader, Carrie Lam, said she has caused \u2018unforgivable havoc\u2019 by igniting the political crisis engulfing the city and would quit if she had a choice, according to a leaked audio recording of remarks she made last week to a group &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[41,555,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","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\/8413","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8440,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions\/8440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}