Red tape led to ‘close to zero’ collaboration among Hong Kong bureaus, head of youth policy advisory body says
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The outgoing chief of Hong Kong’s soon-to-be defunct Commission on Youth has hit out at red tape among government agencies, saying there was “close to zero” cross-bureau collaboration on resolving problems facing the city’s youth.
In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Lau Ming-wai also said it was very important that the government listened to young Hongkongers because many of them felt politicians were not acting in their interests.
“Political parties – whether they are yellow or blue – generally are not recognised by young people as representative of them,” he added, referring to the symbolic colours of the pro-democracy and pro-establishment camps respectively.
“So the idea of these parties being young people’s political agents, from the political science perspective, has broken down.”