{"id":91985,"date":"2016-05-30T09:03:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T01:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=91985"},"modified":"2016-06-02T15:39:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T07:39:20","slug":"a-chief-executive-battle-in-the-dark-everyone-can-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/a-chief-executive-battle-in-the-dark-everyone-can-see\/","title":{"rendered":"A chief executive &#8216;battle in the dark&#8217; everyone can see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n<p>Pundits say a \u201cchief executive battle in the dark\u201d (\u7279\u9996\u6697\u6230) has begun. Even if, a big if, the warfare under daylight has not started, it won\u2019t take long for aspirants for the top post to enter into close counters and direct rivalry under the sun.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend saw Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, who has said he would like to seek another term even before he took the oath for his first term in 2012, gearing up his re-election campaign in a blitz of publicity.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, he spoke on the \u201cBelt and Road\u201d strategy, one of his pet subjects, at RTHK\u2019s Letter to Hong Kong. Also on Saturday, TVB ran the first of a three-part interview with Leung.<\/p>\n<p>The TVB interview is the third he gave to media outlets this month. He rarely gave one-on-one interview to the media before then.<\/p>\n<p>In Saturday\u2019s interview, he rebuked criticism against his governance style and record.<\/p>\n<p>Full article:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ILTcvX3t0w\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/05\/30\/a-chief-executive-battle-in-the-dark-everyone-can-see\/\">A chief executive &#8216;battle in the dark&#8217; everyone can see<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cA chief executive \u2018battle in the dark\u2019 everyone can see\u201d \u2014 Voice of Hong Kong\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/05\/30\/a-chief-executive-battle-in-the-dark-everyone-can-see\/embed\/#?secret=ILTcvX3t0w\" data-secret=\"ILTcvX3t0w\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung Pundits say a \u201cchief executive battle in the dark\u201d (\u7279\u9996\u6697\u6230) has begun. Even if, a big if, the warfare under daylight has not started, it won\u2019t take long for aspirants for the top post to enter into close counters and direct rivalry under the sun. The weekend saw Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":91986,"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":[17613,8,21137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chris-yeung","category-column","category-local-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/cy0529.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-nVD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91985","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=91985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}