Brusque to bruised: Hong Kong's Lam caves to pressure on extradition bill

HONG KONG/BEIJING - With an escalating U.S. trade war, a faltering economy and tensions in the South China Sea vexing her bosses in Beijing, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam appeared in no mood to compromise on a planned extradition law at recent meetings, according to foreign envoys and business people who met with her.

Worries over the bill’s impact on Hong Kong’s international standing as a financial hub with a respected legal system were building in Washington, London and other European capitals, but Lam stressed the need for the extradition law to help solve the murder of a Hong Kong woman in Taiwan. Clues to the catalyst for the about-face may lie in a reported meeting between Lam and China’s Vice-Premier Han Zheng.

Many politicians, diplomats and analysts had not expected Beijing to allow any backdown on the bill, unlike in 2003 when contentious national security laws were scrapped after half a million people took to the streets.

Source: Financial Digest (financialdigest.net)

I'm sorry to offend those that offend easily but this person is NOT NICE ... PERSONS like this are WHY THE WORLD HAS SOOOOOO MUCH ' NOT NICENESS AND BAD BAD RULES IN IT. There I said it as 'LEAST OFFENCESIVELY SO AS TO NOT UPSET THE EASILY UPSET PEOPLE '

Ahead of the G20, the Chinese Communist Party backed down for fear of criticism. They will now begin to undermine Hong Kong's democracy. Therefore, international opinion must continue to support Hong Kong and Taiwan so that freedom and democracy are not undermined.

She needs to work better on her lies! Or she really needs to learn how to buy toilet papers and using public transport when she loses her job

She’ll be recalled to Beijing for re-education.

her atitude tells you all you need to know about the nasty chinese govt.

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