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//What Carrie Lam Should Do Next
Jun 25, 2019 CHRIS PATTEN
LONDON – I do not know Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s embattled chief executive, very well. She worked for my administration when I was governor there. Diligent and well regarded – and Catholic, like many others in the then-colony’s civil service – she had been educated at Hong Kong University and at Cambridge. When I left in 1997, after sovereignty over the city was returned to China, she was rising through the ranks of the Treasury. In most administrations, the cleverest usually seem to gravitate to the economic departments, looking after the cash. I do not recall ever hearing a bad word about her.
Yet today, Lam finds herself lonely and beleaguered, although it is unclear whether she should take all the blame for what has happened to her. In any case, she must now display real leadership to ease the heightening tensions in the city.
Lam must have known what she was in for when she became chief executive in 2017. She was handpicked through an elaborate system designed to ensure that the communist regime in Beijing got the leader it wanted. But from 1997 until now, China’s rulers do not seem to have been very good at choosing people for the job. And their effort to dress up the whole process with some democratic trappings convinces no one.
Lam’s main opponent for the chief executive job was a former financial secretary, John Tsang, who had a huge lead over her in the opinion polls. But in the Chinese government’s view, Tsang had made the fatal mistake of suggesting talks with the student leaders during and after the Umbrella Movement’s pro-democracy demonstrations in 2014. Fancy that: trying to talk your critics around to your point of view rather than beating them into submission and tossing them into prison.
Since day one, therefore, Hong Kong’s citizens have known that Lam is not her own woman. That is a pity, because she might be good at the job if she were. She is in the post but not in power, instead receiving orders from Beijing or its United Front communist hacks in Hong Kong itself.
The proximate cause of Lam’s woes is her attempt to introduce an extradition law that would destroy the firewall between Hong Kong’s rule of law and the arbitrary exercise of power by the Communist Party of China (CPC) on the mainland. The arguments in support of the bill were pretty threadbare. Most people in Hong Kong – lawyers, business representatives, and ordinary citizens – feared that the law would demolish at a single stroke one of the main pillars of the “one country, two systems” arrangement that was supposed to guarantee the city’s way of life and a high degree of autonomy until 2047.
If Lam did not understand how unpopular the proposed law would be, she certainly does now. On June 9, over one million citizens took to the streets in protest; on June 16, about twice that number did. And the protests are continuing. Even China’s rulers have taken note, and have hung Lam out to dry, claiming that the proposed law was not their idea. The chief executive was acting on her own, they suggest.
Who knows? Maybe China simply went along with what locals call a bit of shoe-shining: Lam was simply doing what she knew was expected of her. The new law would obviate China’s need to abduct Hong Kongers it does not like, as it has been doing. In any event, before Lam announced her intention to postpone the legislation, she crossed the city’s border to Shenzhen to clear her lines with a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC’s politburo. This rather embarrassing dash for approval was duly leaked to a pro-Beijing newspaper in the city, just to make clear where the real power lay.
Lam has been badly hurt politically. But Hong Kong needs unifying leadership right now, and the city cannot leave everything to young democracy activists like the brave and articulate Harry Potter-lookalike Joshua Wong. So I have two pieces of advice for Lam, which I hope will not be rejected out of hand simply because they come from me. I do not want Hong Kong to be left in a state of continuing crisis.
First, the chief executive should put citizens’ minds at ease by making it clear that she has no intention of resubmitting the extradition bill later this year or next. She should announce that it is a dead issue, and that she will ask the Hong Kong Bar Association and other lawyers to suggest how future cases that may require rendition of fugitives to Taiwan or China can be dealt with on the basis of the common law.
Second, Lam should announce an open and independent inquiry into police activity during the protests. Everyone could benefit – including the police. After the peace agreement in Northern Ireland in 1998, I reorganized the police service there and dealt with issues of maintaining public order. You do not use rubber bullets as though you were on a rabbit shoot, you don’t fire pepper spray into demonstrators’ faces at close quarters, and you do not beat them with batons as they lie on the ground.
Lam should spend a half-hour looking at the same pictures from Hong Kong that the world saw. Any alleged violent behavior by demonstrators could also be examined. Such an inquiry would not cede any moral high ground to critics of the city’s government. Rather, it would give the chief executive a basis on which to talk to the community and bring people together.
As I am sure Lam now recognizes, it is the citizens of Hong Kong who could be her real friends. She should try to understand their concerns and earn their support. After all, she will never get the same degree of backing from the communist apparatchiks in Beijing. For them, she will always be disposable.
Chris Patten
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I finished this song last year and sent it to two post-production engineers, which was my first time working with people in the industry. I always enjoyed a lot of learning on instruments and recording all the tracks in my bedroom. Lastly, this is the first song I wrote when I moved to the US, Chicago, so I hope you and I can really enjoy this summer.
New York City had many romantic memories for me. I wrote this song after a 4 month break up with my ex-girlfriend. We met at the MOMA ps1 event in the summer, first kissed under the bridge and enjoyed some amazing days in New York City. Can I say, it's just like movies! It's so hard to get over it because this is the first girl in my life. I tried to live happier but when the night came it was still pretty hard, so I wrote songs to express that feeling at night.
我去年完成這首Summertime 但重新調整配器與專業音樂工程後製的系列的第二首. 我所有錄音工程都在家中完成 自己非常享受在錄製學習的過程 最後這首歌是在芝加哥第一首寫出來的歌 希望你跟我都能好好享受今年夏天.
紐約是個很浪漫和奇幻的城市，充滿無限可能，無比的繁忙，好像一直不停的發生事情。雷頓狗在紐約的發生的事情，非常浪漫，因此寫了這首歌來記錄這一份情感。
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When we fell in love it was last year Summertime : ) Midnight Dance down in the Brooklyn street.
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Lyrics by Layton Wu 雷頓狗
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Hey, xin chào! Chào mừng mọi người đã quay trở lại với phần 4 của the vlogging series - Euro Trip 2018. Phần này, bọn mình đến thăm thành phố lớn của xứ sở bò tót Tây Ban Nha - Barcelona.
Điều đầu tiên mình nhận ra ở Barcelona đó chính là thành phố này quy hoạch đô thị cực kỳ quy củ và có tổ chức. Bắn Yựt Way lên trời nhìn toàn cảnh thành phố mà thấy nhà cửa đường xá cơ sở hạ tầng được xây dựng sắp đặt một cách có hệ thống. Đến khi đi dạo quanh thành phố thì càng thấy điều này rõ hơn khi vỉa hè đi bộ rộng mênh mông, đường xá cho xe cộ đi lại được chia làn rõ rệt, và đặc biệt là luôn có những làn đường cho người đi xe đạp nữa.
Tuy nhiên, Barcelona nóng lắm mọi người ơi. Có thể mọi người từ Việt Nam sang chơi thì thấy quen chứ mình từ London sang đây như lạc vào sa mạc... nắng muốn nổ đầu!... Nếu có ghé thăm thì nhớ chuẩn bị thật kĩ càng nhé! ???☀️
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Hey, guys! Great to have you back in part 4 of the vlogging series - Euro Trip 2018. We're heading off to one of Spain's most well-known cities this time - Barcelona.
My first impression of Barcelona is its insane urban planning. From Roasted Duck's point of view, you can really see the rigorous organisation and planning of the buildings and infrastructure that give the city of Barcelona such a tidy layout. When we were strolling down the streets of the city, we could really feel the spacious environment - wide pavements, well-designed streets, available bicycle lanes etc.
When traveling to Barcelona, be mindful of the weather though - it was hot as ferk! Coming from London, where the weather is pretty much crap all-year round, the Barcelona heat certainly packed a punch. Just make sure you guys are logistically... and mentally prepared! ???☀️
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Fifth Floor, Harvey Nichols | 109-125 Knightsbridge, London SW1X 7RJ, England
As a big fan of both 'burgers' and 'lobsters' i was suprised it took me so long to visit one of these resturants. I attended the Knightsbridge branch which is nicely located on the 5th floor of Harvey Nichols. We managed to make a reservation as we are a large party which saved waiting in the queue. Though i have read the queue is not too bad here you will still be waiting approx. a hour if you dont have a booking and i am guessing this is slightly longer around weekend etc. The venue was clean and nice looking with a sort of 'cool' atmosphere. T and the food was rather more delicious than expected. Though i love the idea of an upmarket chain selling simply burger and lobster I was pretty skeptical about the lobster but it was delicious and extreamly well cooked. The burger also looked pretty, was cooked well and had nice flavours but it however wasn't the best burger i have ever eaten. Though saying that i would more than happily visit the Soho and Mayfair Branches and the service was also excellent too.
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