{"id":111481,"date":"2017-02-03T10:27:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T02:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=111481"},"modified":"2017-02-03T10:27:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T02:27:48","slug":"tsang-combat-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/tsang-combat-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsang in combat mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive hopeful John Tsang Chun-wah switched to combat mode yesterday. In a three-thronged offensive, he moved to silence critics against his laid-back style, doubters about Beijing\u2019s trust in him and his determination to win the top post.<\/p>\n<p>Countering claims that Beijing has said no to his election bid, he told media: \u201cThere is no reason for me to believe that the central government does not trust me.\u201d&nbsp;He cited his past record of being a principal official appointed by the central government since 1999, which includes an almost 10-year stint as financial secretary.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time Tsang addressed the intense speculation that Beijing had on several occasions persuaded him not to run.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2017\/01\/27\/tsang-in-combat-mode\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2017\/01\/27\/tsang-in-combat-mode\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief executive hopeful John Tsang Chun-wah switched to combat mode yesterday. In a three-thronged offensive, he moved to silence critics against his laid-back style, doubters about Beijing\u2019s trust in him and his determination to win the top post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17613,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chris-yeung","category-column"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cy0729.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-t05","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}