Newly anointed Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and members of her Executive Council meet the press before their first meeting under Lam’s leadership, at the Hong Kong government headquarters in Admiralty on July 4, 2017. Photo: Edward Wong Newly anointed Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and members of her Executive Council meet the press before their first meeting under Lam’s leadership, at the Hong Kong government headquarters in Admiralty on July 4, 2017. Photo: Edward Wong
Newly anointed Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and members of her Executive Council meet the press before their first meeting under Lam’s leadership, at the Hong Kong government headquarters in Admiralty on July 4, 2017. Photo: Edward Wong
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Letters | The road to a bright future for Hong Kong beyond 2047 lies in the past

  • After the partial introduction of representative democracy in the last years of British rule, the significance of the executive-led system began to wane and society became increasingly divided. That pragmatic model should be restored

Topic |   Hong Kong politics
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Newly anointed Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and members of her Executive Council meet the press before their first meeting under Lam’s leadership, at the Hong Kong government headquarters in Admiralty on July 4, 2017. Photo: Edward Wong Newly anointed Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and members of her Executive Council meet the press before their first meeting under Lam’s leadership, at the Hong Kong government headquarters in Admiralty on July 4, 2017. Photo: Edward Wong
Newly anointed Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and members of her Executive Council meet the press before their first meeting under Lam’s leadership, at the Hong Kong government headquarters in Admiralty on July 4, 2017. Photo: Edward Wong
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