{"id":92999,"date":"2016-06-15T12:47:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T04:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=92999"},"modified":"2016-07-20T13:53:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T05:53:07","slug":"blame-the-system-or-cy-leung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/blame-the-system-or-cy-leung\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame the system or CY Leung?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking in length on the city\u2019s systemic deficiencies that have troubled he and his two successors since the 1997 handover at a Our Hong Kong Foundation lunch talk Monday, Tung has apparently attempted to take the heat off from Leung his governance fiasco.<\/p>\n<p>His message is: blame the political system, not CY. Or crudely put, anyone including CY who becomes the chief executive will have his or her hands tied under the present political setup. He and his immediate successor Donald Tsang are no exception.<\/p>\n<p>Full article:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"sL71xI7Tpv\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/06\/14\/blame-the-system-or-cy-leung\/\">Blame the system or CY Leung?<\/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\/06\/14\/blame-the-system-or-cy-leung\/embed\/#?secret=sL71xI7Tpv\" data-secret=\"sL71xI7Tpv\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Blame the system or CY Leung?&#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 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. But speaking in length on the city\u2019s systemic deficiencies that have troubled he and his two successors since the 1997 handover at a Our Hong Kong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":93073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17613,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/10110_em1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-obZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":91168,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/cy-leung-the-loser-in-zhang-visit\/","url_meta":{"origin":92999,"position":0},"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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