{"id":116610,"date":"2017-04-13T09:45:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T01:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=116610"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:45:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T01:45:48","slug":"hopes-anxiety-uncertainties-lams-beijing-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/hopes-anxiety-uncertainties-lams-beijing-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopes, anxiety and uncertainties in Lam&#8217;s Beijing trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n<p>Any doubts about Beijing\u2019s backing of chief executive-elect Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor would now have been laid to rest following her visit to Beijing this week. Reading from a script, President Xi Jinping heaped praises on Mrs Lam, which could be seen as a statement of record about why she was chosen by the ruling Communist Party to lead Hong Kong in the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>Expected as it was, Xi\u2019s full and unambiguous backing of her is a must-have for her to do the task of healing the wounds inflicted by the incumbent chief Leung Chun-ying since 2012 and putting the city back on the track of economic and social progress in the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>Full article:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ZubHGFM6Qg\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2017\/04\/13\/hopes-anxiety-and-uncertainties-in-lams-beijing-trip\/\">Hopes, anxiety and uncertainties in Lam&#8217;s Beijing trip<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cHopes, anxiety and uncertainties in Lam\u2019s Beijing trip\u201d \u2014 Voice of Hong Kong\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2017\/04\/13\/hopes-anxiety-and-uncertainties-in-lams-beijing-trip\/embed\/#?secret=ZubHGFM6Qg\" data-secret=\"ZubHGFM6Qg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any doubts about Beijing\u2019s backing of chief executive-elect Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor would now have been laid to rest following her visit to Beijing this week. Reading from a script, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":115696,"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-116610","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\/2017\/03\/CL001.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-ukO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116610","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=116610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}