{"id":156477,"date":"2020-08-15T02:38:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T00:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/15\/the-press-has-to-go-on-hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-defies-beijing\/"},"modified":"2020-08-15T02:38:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T00:38:38","slug":"the-press-has-to-go-on-hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-defies-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=156477","title":{"rendered":"&#039;The press has to go on&#039;: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai defies Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Daily founder and pro democracy activist says his case will likely be a \u2018litmus test\u2019 of Hong Kong\u2019s legal systemWary but defiant, Jimmy Lai is determined to keep fighting for a democratic Hong Kong, even as he acknowledges that China\u2019s goal is to take full control of the region.Speaking to the Guardian five days after his arrest on foreign collusion allegations \u2013 he is currently out on bail &#8211; media tycoon Lai argues the press must keep going. But he also believes that Monday\u2019s round up was a warning from Beijing. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/the-press-has-to-go-on-hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-defies-beijing\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;The press has to go on&#039;: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai defies Beijing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Daily founder and pro democracy activist says his case will likely be a \u2018litmus test\u2019 of Hong Kong\u2019s legal systemWary but defiant, Jimmy Lai is determined to keep fighting for a democratic Hong Kong, even as he acknowledges that China\u2019s goal is to take full control of the region.Speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}