{"id":113888,"date":"2017-03-07T10:05:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T02:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=113888"},"modified":"2017-03-07T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T02:07:23","slug":"zhang-stops-short-naming-next-ce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/zhang-stops-short-naming-next-ce\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhang stops short of naming next CE, does he?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung \u2013<\/p>\n<p>A top Chinese official has dropped more hints of Beijing\u2019s preference for the next chief executive, but stopped short of naming her name, namely former chief secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor.<\/p>\n<p>In remarks made at a meeting with local deputies of the National People\u2019s Congress (NPC) in Beijing on Monday, chairman Zhang Dejiang appears to have targeted at the alleged shortcomings of Mrs Lam\u2019s main rival, John Tsang Chun-wah.<br \/>\nAgain, he did not name Tsang.<\/p>\n<p>Full article:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"x2F19WDSQe\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2017\/03\/07\/zhang-stops-short-of-naming-next-ce-does-he\/\">Zhang stops short of naming next CE, does he?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cZhang stops short of naming next CE, does he?\u201d \u2014 Voice of Hong Kong\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2017\/03\/07\/zhang-stops-short-of-naming-next-ce-does-he\/embed\/#?secret=x2F19WDSQe\" data-secret=\"x2F19WDSQe\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top Chinese official has dropped more hints of Beijing\u2019s preference for the next chief executive, but stopped short of naming her name, namely former chief secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":103688,"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":[17613,8,6855],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chris-yeung","category-column","category-sticky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/cy1031.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-tCU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113888","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=113888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}