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Are there any good reasons to support the take that the extradition law was Lam's own initiative and not pushed for by China ?
by metabork 7y ago
Are there any good reasons to support the take that the extradition law was Lam's own initiative and not pushed for by China ?
- idlewords 7y agoJames Palmer writing in August in Foreign Policy gives what is the consensus view among journalists in Hong Kong: "Analysts generally believe that the bill was the initiative of Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, not a measure suggested or strongly pushed from Beijing. Lam may have been aiming to please the Chinese authorities and strengthen her position, or it may have been an attempt to put a formal procedure in place in order to circumvent the Chinese authorities from simply kidnapping Hong Kongers." https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/03/why-is-hong-kong-erupting-protests-china-extradition/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/03/why-is-hong-kong-erupti...
- metabork 7y agoThanks, my impression was that Beijing tried to quickly capitalize on an opportunity that presented itself with the Taiwan murder - if this is really Lam's own doing then the level of either stupidity or self-dealing is staggering.