{"id":92723,"date":"2016-06-10T08:57:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T00:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=92723"},"modified":"2016-07-20T13:53:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T05:53:01","slug":"lancome-row-exposes-ugly-side-of-one-country-two-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/lancome-row-exposes-ugly-side-of-one-country-two-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancome row exposes ugly side of &#8216;one country, two systems&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was a busy man in Paris eagerly keen to convince his host, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, Hong Kong is best positioned under the \u201cone country, two systems\u201d political framework to benefit from a rising China.<\/p>\n<p>He trumpeted his notion of Hong Kong being the \u201csuper-connector\u201d between the 1.3 billion-populated nation and the world.<\/p>\n<p>But at home, a drama surrounding a French cosmetic brand Lancome has laid bare the ugly side of the face of \u201cone country, two systems.\u201d On Thursday, Lancome reopened its stores across Hong Kong, one day after protests were held over the company\u2019s cancellation of a concert by Canto-pop star Denise Ho Wan-sze. It came after Ho faced blistering attack by the Global Times, a sister publication of the mainland official People\u2019s Daily, for allegedly supporting Hong Kong independence.<\/p>\n<p>Full article:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"SaBIeo2222\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/06\/10\/lancome-row-exposes-ugly-side-of-one-country-two-systems\/\">Lancome row exposes ugly side of &#8216;one country, two systems&#8217;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cLancome row exposes ugly side of \u2018one country, two systems\u2019\u201d \u2014 Voice of Hong Kong\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/06\/10\/lancome-row-exposes-ugly-side-of-one-country-two-systems\/embed\/#?secret=SaBIeo2222\" data-secret=\"SaBIeo2222\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung On Thursday, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was a busy man in Paris eagerly keen to convince his host, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, Hong Kong is best positioned under the \u201cone country, two systems\u201d political framework to benefit from a rising China. He trumpeted his notion of Hong Kong being the \u201csuper-connector\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":92724,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chris-yeung","category-column"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/cy0610.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-o7x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92723","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=92723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}