No need for Hong Kong independence talk, says Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying
The government is already looking after Hongkongers’ interests, says city leader
Debate on Hong Kong independence is unnecessary, because Hongkongers’ interests are the government’s priority, the city’s leader said on Tuesday.
Before his weekly Executive Council meeting on Tuesday morning, Leung evaded a reporter’s question about the film, but on the city’s independence, he said: “From the legal perspective, we will handle it in accordance with the law; and from the political perspective, I know that there are people – including the young – who asked whether Hongkonger’s interests were influenced or eroded by the mainland.
“But (those interests) have been the government’s priority, especially on issues where shortage could easily arise, so there is no need to take the issue onto the level of whether Hong Kong need be independent so that the people’s interests can be safeguarded.”