CY Leung compared to Mao as policy address comes under fire in Legco
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was compared to Mao Zedong as he exchanged fire with pan-democratic lawmakers over critical comments he made about a student magazine in his policy address.
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was compared to Communist strongman Mao Zedong on Thursday as he exchanged fire with pan-democratic lawmakers over critical comments he made about a student magazine in his policy address.
Pan-democrat lawmakers boycotted Leung’s policy speech yesterday, but changed tactics in their attempts to embarrass the chief executive during a 1 ½ hour question-and-answer session in the Legislative Council.
Leung was asked several times to explain his opening remarks in the policy address, which attacked student leaders for “putting forward fallacies” concerning nationalism and self-determination for Hong Kong in the University of Hong Kong Student Union magazine Undergrad last February.
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Leung slammed students for “advocating independence” and criticised a book published by Undergrad in September last year entitled Hong Kong Nationalism.
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Lee Cheuk-yan, chairman of the Labour Party, accused Leung of acting like Mao.