{"id":113516,"date":"2017-03-01T09:27:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T01:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=113516"},"modified":"2017-03-01T09:29:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T01:29:03","slug":"beijings-dilemma-leungs-cppcc-top-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/beijings-dilemma-leungs-cppcc-top-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing&#8217;s dilemma over Leung&#8217;s CPPCC top post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n<p>The ruling Chinese Communist Party is caught between a rock and a hard place in elevating the departing Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to the top echelon of China\u2019s national united front body.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the Standing Committee of the Chinese People\u2019s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) approved with one dissenting vote and four abstentions the appointment of Leung to the national body. 275 said yes.<\/p>\n<p>It seems certain he will be named as one of the vice-chairman of the CPPCC at the end of an upcoming plenum in Beijing. If so, he will follow the footsteps of the first chief executive Tung Chee-hwa, who was made a vice-chairman after he stood down in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Full story:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"fLMeYXAOgT\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2017\/03\/01\/beijing-faces-dilemma-over-leungs-cppcc-top-post\/\">Beijing faces dilemma over Leung&#8217;s CPPCC top post<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cBeijing faces dilemma over Leung\u2019s CPPCC top post\u201d \u2014 Voice of Hong Kong\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2017\/03\/01\/beijing-faces-dilemma-over-leungs-cppcc-top-post\/embed\/#?secret=fLMeYXAOgT\" data-secret=\"fLMeYXAOgT\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling Chinese Communist Party is caught between a rock and a hard place in elevating the departing Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to the top echelon of China\u2019s national united front body<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":39569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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-113516","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\/2015\/03\/\u6881\u632f\u82f13.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-twU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113516","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\/1631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}