Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam is a “pawn” in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “game of global domination”, US Senator Rick Scott says. Photo: ReutersHong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam is a “pawn” in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “game of global domination”, US Senator Rick Scott says. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam is a “pawn” in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “game of global domination”, US Senator Rick Scott says. Photo: Reuters
China /  Diplomacy

US Senator Rick Scott accuses Hong Kong chief Carrie Lam of being Beijing’s puppet

  • Republican from Florida says city’s leader is ‘just another pawn in communist dictator Xi [Jinping]’s game of global domination’
  • Lam’s inaction on protesters’ concerns ‘demonstrates how little she values the rights of the people of Hong Kong’, he says
Topic |   Hong Kong protests
Teddy Ng
Teddy Ng

Updated: 3:49pm, 4 Oct, 2019

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Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam is a “pawn” in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “game of global domination”, US Senator Rick Scott says. Photo: ReutersHong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam is a “pawn” in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “game of global domination”, US Senator Rick Scott says. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam is a “pawn” in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “game of global domination”, US Senator Rick Scott says. Photo: Reuters
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