{"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=\"J3b2GqYFIe\"><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 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\/30\/a-chief-executive-battle-in-the-dark-everyone-can-see\/embed\/#?secret=J3b2GqYFIe\" data-secret=\"J3b2GqYFIe\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;A chief executive &#8216;battle in the dark&#8217; everyone can see&#8221; &#8212; Voice of Hong Kong\" 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":[],"categories":[17613,8,21137],"tags":[],"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":[{"id":92999,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/blame-the-system-or-cy-leung\/","url_meta":{"origin":91985,"position":0},"title":"Blame the system or CY Leung?","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"June 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By Chris Yeung Like the spring weather in Hong Kong, whether former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa supports Leung Chun-ying for his second term is unclear, at least for now. 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But as the pair made\u2026","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\/07\/cy0711_em-752x440.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":91168,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/cy-leung-the-loser-in-zhang-visit\/","url_meta":{"origin":91985,"position":3},"title":"CY Leung the loser in Zhang visit","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"May 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By Chris Yeung Superficially, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying stood to gain from the visit of a state leader to the place he governed except for the unlikely scenario that he was given a reprimand during the visit. 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