A protester holds a placard depicting Chief Executive Carrie Lam during a demonstration in Hong Kong on June 16. Photo: Reuters
Opinion
Opinion
Replacing Carrie Lam with another puppet would be pointless. Instead, Beijing needs to loosen the strings
- The Hong Kong crisis is likely to end in tragedy unless Carrie Lam can muster the courage to tell her bosses in Beijing to stop eroding the city’s autonomy, allow genuine democratic elections, and end the insidious mainlandisation
A protester holds a placard depicting Chief Executive Carrie Lam during a demonstration in Hong Kong on June 16. Photo: Reuters