{"id":40646,"date":"2019-08-28T16:22:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40646"},"modified":"2019-08-28T16:22:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:22:18","slug":"the-only-hong-kong-multi-millionaire-standing-up-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40646","title":{"rendered":"The only Hong Kong multi-millionaire standing up to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>Jimmy Lai has been a public target for decades.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">It all started after the <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/16\/asia\/hong-kong-protests-evolution-intl-hnk-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong<\/a> business tycoon \u2014 a refugee from China \u2014 reinvented himself in the mid-1990s as the founder of the city&#8217;s provocative, anti-Beijing tabloid, <a href=\"https:\/\/hk.appledaily.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Daily<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">One of the advertisements that introduced the newspaper to the world made Lai&#8217;s point in the bluntest of ways: By showing Lai sitting in a dark warehouse with a red apple on his scalp, being pelted with incoming arrows fired by a shadowy figure.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)Jimmy Lai has been a public target for decades.It all started after the Hong Kong business tycoon \u2014 a refugee from China \u2014 reinvented himself in the mid-1990s as the founder of the city&#8217;s provocative, anti-Beijing tabloid, Apple Daily.One of the advertisements that introduced the newspaper to the world made Lai&#8217;s point in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}