{"id":90960,"date":"2016-05-20T10:24:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T02:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=90960"},"modified":"2016-05-23T11:36:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T03:36:35","slug":"promises-and-realities-belt-and-road-one-country-two-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/promises-and-realities-belt-and-road-one-country-two-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Promises And Realities: \u2018Belt And Road\u2019, \u2018One Country, Two Systems\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung \u2013<\/p>\n<p>With the grand \u201cBelt and Road\u201d initiative as the wrapping paper, China\u2019s Number Three man Zhang Dejiang has delivered a gift with economic candies and political bitter pills for the people of Hong Kong during his three-day \u201cinspection\u201d ended on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang, who ranks below Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang in the powerful Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee hierarchy, was full of promises of \u201cbacking Hong Kong\u201d in his address to an international audience at the \u201cBelt and Road\u201d forum on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Full article:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"79wdbGUSF0\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/05\/19\/promises-and-realities-belt-and-road-one-country-two-systems\/\">Promises and realities: &#8216;Belt and Road&#8217;, &#8216;one country, two systems&#8217;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/05\/19\/promises-and-realities-belt-and-road-one-country-two-systems\/embed\/#?secret=79wdbGUSF0\" data-secret=\"79wdbGUSF0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Promises and realities: &#8216;Belt and Road&#8217;, &#8216;one country, two systems&#8217;&#8221; &#8212; Voice of Hong Kong\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the grand \u201cBelt and Road\u201d initiative as the wrapping paper, China\u2019s Number Three man Zhang Dejiang has delivered a gift with economic candies and political bitter pills for the people of Hong Kong during his three-day \u201cinspection\u201d ended on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":90961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17613,8,21137],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/cy0520.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-nF6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":90334,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/word-play-in-beijings-hong-kong-game-worrying\/","url_meta":{"origin":90960,"position":0},"title":"Word play in Beijing&#8217;s Hong Kong game worrying","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"May 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The use of the word \u201cinspection (\u8996\u5bdf)\u201d by China\u2019s official Xinhua news agency to describe the upcoming visit of NPC chairman Zhang Dejiang to Hong Kong cannot be taken lightly.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Chris Yeung&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Chris Yeung","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/category\/column\/chris-yeung\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/cy0512.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":90483,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/conflicting-intriguing-messages-ahead-of-zhang-inspection-trip\/","url_meta":{"origin":90960,"position":1},"title":"Conflicting, intriguing messages ahead of Zhang &#8216;inspection&#8217; trip","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"May 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 By Chris Yeung Conflicting signals and intriguing political acts of Hong Kong\u2019s top three officials have emerged on the eve of the \u201cinspection\u201d trip of NPC chairman Zhang Dejiang, the country\u2019s Number Three, to the city on Tuesday. 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