{"id":8419,"date":"2019-09-03T11:41:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T02:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/03\/hong-kong-protests-carrie-lam-denies-she-considered-resigning"},"modified":"2019-09-03T18:37:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T09:37:59","slug":"hong-kong-protests-carrie-lam-denies-she-considered-resigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8419","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: Carrie Lam denies offering to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader says she wants to remain in job, but doesn\u2019t deny authenticity of leaked audio recording saying otherwise as arrests continue<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s embattled leader Carrie Lam has said that she has never offered to step down, a day after an audio recording emerged of her saying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/02\/hong-kong-carrie-lam-would-quit-if-had-choice-leaked-audio\">she would quit if she had \u201ca choice\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a press conference on Tuesday, Lam did not deny veracity of the audio, but told reporters: \u201cI have never tendered resignation to the central people\u2019s government. I have not even contemplated tendering resignation &#8230; The choice of not resigning is my own choice.\u201d She added: \u201cThe reason being I believe I can lead my team to come out of this impasse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/03\/hong-kong-protests-carrie-lam-denies-she-considered-resigning\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader says she wants to remain in job, but doesn\u2019t deny authenticity of leaked audio recording saying otherwise as arrests continueHong Kong\u2019s embattled leader Carrie Lam has said that she has never offered to step down, a day after an audio recording&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"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":[41,555,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419","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\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8439,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419\/revisions\/8439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}