LETTER TO SCMP:
Carrie Lam says she is pushing the extradition legislation "for the benefit of Hong Kong". Would she care to explain to we Hongkongers exactly how her actions are beneficial, because I can't see it.
Lam may have teared up when she denied "selling out" Hong Kong, but that seems exactly what she's doing. And she's doing it off her own bat, so it seems, if we are to believe her insistence that Beijing has nothing to do with it.
Meantime, the China Daily says the demonstrations are "hammering" Hong Kong's reputation. In fact, the opposite is the case. It's the clear coordination of Carrie and the Communists that is hammering our hard-won reputation. And how dare China say HK is purely an "internal matter" when the post-handover arrangements are subject to international treaty. (China unilaterally abrogated that treaty in June 2017, which speaks volumes about its respect for the rule of law, the crux of the current issue).
By the way, check out the forty countries with which China has extradition treaties. Most are what I would call NVN — "not very nice".
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