{"id":8106,"date":"2022-06-14T11:43:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T11:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8106"},"modified":"2022-06-14T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T11:43:19","slug":"hong-kong-ushers-in-a-new-era-of-restriction-under-john-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8106","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong ushers in a new era of restriction under John Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;John Lee is the new chief executive of Hong Kong. The 64-year-old ran the only approved campaign to succeed Carrie Lam, the embattled head of the Chinese territory who oversaw a dramatic degradation to democratic institutions throughout 2019\u2019s pro-democracy protests. Lee\u2019s tenure will likely bring more of the same: a former deputy chief of Hong Kong\u2019s police force, he was instrumental in the brutal crackdowns on pro-democracy activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the sole Beijing-approved candidate to replace Lam, Lee\u2019s victory was all but assured as soon as he announced his candidacy. While Hong Kong doesn\u2019t have what Americans would recognize as a democratic electoral system, previous elections have seen multiple candidates vie for Hong Kong\u2019s top job. But this year, Lee was the only person Beijing apparently deemed sufficiently loyal to China\u2019s Communist Party under its new electoral policies for Hong Kong,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/china-hongkong-election-legislature\/2021\/03\/30\/bb1f405c-912d-11eb-aadc-af78701a30ca_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unveiled last March<\/a>. He won handily with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/voting-rights-elections-beijing-hong-kong-f136ce684eaafab980800337dd9ef4c2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">99 percent<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/05\/08\/1097452402\/beijing-loyalist-john-lee-elected-as-hong-kongs-next-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;of the votes<\/a>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmab.gov.hk\/en\/issues\/election_committee.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1,500-member electoral commission<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2022\/5\/8\/23062437\/hong-kong-chief-executive-john-lee-restrictions\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2022\/5\/8\/23062437\/hong-kong-chief-executive-john-lee-restrictions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;John Lee is the new chief executive of Hong Kong. The 64-year-old ran the only approved campaign to succeed Carrie Lam, the embattled head of the Chinese territory who oversaw a dramatic degradation to democratic institutions throughout 2019\u2019s pro-democracy protests. Lee\u2019s tenure will likely bring more of the same: a former deputy chief of Hong Kong\u2019s police force, he was instrumental in the brutal crackdowns on pro-democracy activists.<\/p>\n<p>As the sole Beijing-approved candidate to replace Lam, Lee\u2019s victory was all but assured as soon as he announced his candidacy. While Hong Kong doesn\u2019t have what Americans would recognize as a democratic electoral system, previous elections have seen multiple candidates vie for Hong Kong\u2019s top job. But this year, Lee was the only person Beijing apparently deemed sufficiently loyal to China\u2019s Communist Party under its new electoral policies for Hong Kong, unveiled last March. He won handily with 99 percent of the votes from the 1,500-member electoral commission.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[864,89,431,660,581,661],"class_list":["post-8106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-autocracy","tag-china","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-hong-kong","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8107,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions\/8107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}