Could she ? Wouldn’t she have been "disappeared" as well as her family ?
Not trying to excuse anything of course, she chose her side a long time ago, but still…
Could she ? Wouldn’t she have been "disappeared" as well as her family ?
Not trying to excuse anything of course, she chose her side a long time ago, but still…
But let's say you believe that dark scenario. In that case, even small gestures, like visiting a school or hospital, or not calling protesters "enemies of the people", would have been a sign of sympathy.
She did visit the local mosque to apologize when the police blasted it with tainted water, after she was called out on it. She did not visit nor apologize to local churchs which experienced worse behavior.
She simply refuses to learn what Hong Kongers truly think of her. The district elections were a stinging rebuke to her administration, yet she believes that she is right.
We Hong Kongers will remember her and her cronies forever, in the same way we remember the June 4th crackdown.
China is, and Hong Kong is part of China. This is the root of the entire problem.
If she decided to "make Beijing happy", then what's the endgame?
She thought this was going to end well? And she was going to get rewarded by the CCP?