Mon March, 2021, Age: 3 years
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor spoke Monday of the new electoral changes that have been imposed on Hong Kong, and attempted to assure the public that Hong Kong was still on a path towards greater democracy. The electoral changes are an attempt to purge Hong Kong of political factions that are antagonistic to mainland China. Carrie Lam promised to launch an “intensive” campaign to explain the rule changes to the public. She said, “I am actually quite gratified that as a chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region I am now doing quite a couple of good improvements that will ensure the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong that will safeguard the implementation of ‘one country and two systems’. The first one is the enactment and implementation of the national security law… The second thing is now we are improving the electoral system by making sure whoever is governing and administering Hong Kong in the future is somebody who loves the country, who loves Hong Kong.”