{"id":8415,"date":"2019-09-03T02:26:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T17:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/02\/hong-kong-carrie-lam-would-quit-if-had-choice-leaked-audio"},"modified":"2019-09-03T02:26:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T17:26:56","slug":"hong-kong-i-would-quit-if-i-had-choice-says-leader-in-leaked-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8415","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: I would quit if I had choice, says leader in leaked audio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam\u2019s comments further demonstrate it is Beijing directing response to crisis<\/p>\n<p>A leaked audio recording has emerged in which Hong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, can be heard saying she would quit if she had \u201ca choice\u201d but suggesting she was being prevented from doing so by authorities in Beijing. <\/p>\n<p>In the recording, obtained by Reuters, the Hong Kong chief executive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-hongkong-protests-carrielam-specialre\/special-report-hong-kong-leader-says-she-would-quit-if-she-could-fears-her-ability-to-resolve-crisis-now-very-limited-idUSKCN1VN1DU\">told a group of businesspeople in a closed-door meeting<\/a> last week she was \u201cvery, very limited\u201d in how her government could respond to the mass protests that began in June over a proposal to allow extradition to mainland China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/02\/hong-kong-carrie-lam-would-quit-if-had-choice-leaked-audio\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam\u2019s comments further demonstrate it is Beijing directing response to crisisA leaked audio recording has emerged in which Hong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, can be heard saying she would quit if she had \u201ca choice\u201d but suggesting she was being prev&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"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-8415","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\/8415","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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8463,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions\/8463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}