Hong Kong's Carrie Lam evades question on having autonomy over decisions

Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam refuses to answer questions during a heated media conference in which she defended the police crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. The leader ignored repeated questions about whether she has the autonomy to withdraw the extradition bill that has sparked more than two months of protests, claiming she had already answered the question. Asked about police brutality she said the police had had 'a very difficult time' enforcing the law and had to make on the spot judgments. Lam is heckled as she leaves the media conference.

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[JacobWilson]

She acts like my landlord when I ask for rental receipts

[MrFlexNC]

by evading the question she actually did give her answer, she is not allowed to say china is in power cause that truth would only make things worse

[Afrocow]

Coming from a woman whose immediate family members are UK Citizens... 😆 doubt the love and confidence she and her family have for HK. So pretentious

[captaincaveman]

Wow, Hong Kong runs by the Mafia this is brutal.

[Sean-hecm]

Indeed, the answer of no-answer is very clear. Saddened. Very dangerous when the people is right but the govnt is wrong, so wrong.

[kenhuang]

That was a stupid question, where in the world does a city have authority to make a extradition treaty.

[Dexduzdiz]

She cannot answer the questions as she needs permission for her handlers...

[pito]

I think HK is the most free city. They even can do it in airport ??? It is so crazy....no western country will allow u to do

[leekh]

China is the central government .... Think yes she has autonomy on most items but not all. She had said extradition law is suspended and dead. Which State in any country in the world has autonomy for making all decision?

[clover]

Carrie Lam has as much autonomy as the Xinjiang "Autonomous Region".

[MyWatcher]

She clearly have answered by not answering the questions. Her hands are tied up. I kinda feel bad how she became the scape goat of this situation.

[RickGrimes]

Drinking water bc her throat is VERY DRY FROM 🤥🤥🤥LYING hopefully kids go back to school less crowd

[blauwekrijger]

The International Criminal Court, ICC

Do your job!

[BarbaricBrit]

I've seen many politicians dodge questions.... but not to this degree. She couldn't have made it more obvious.

[bowlampar]

She should tell the reporter that " Are you nut? Never in the history of China an appointed official by Beijing old guard has ' real ' authority over its territory; SAR or otherwise. I am just a watch dog placed inside HK to make sure every official sing and dance along with emperor Xi tone and report back. It doesn't require ' autonomy '.

[marojedlairf]

the HK leader carrie lam cannot hide on her face the over stress she is encounter in handling HK CRISIS... maybe the best way her to relieve her stress is to resigned seek asylum to china or in london bcoz we heard that all her family has a british passport ..hows thats mdme??

[Jay-fvqc]

Sorry, she is not a leader at all.
Historically, a lot of people died when a leader sucks.
Don't act stupid. People around the world are watching.

[zO]

She trying to keep the people under control but failed lol.

[chickeninasal]

Hey England let the protestors close down heathrow and show us how free England really is.

[aaronk]

This carrie lam is so one dimensional, She's in charge but can't defuse the situation. Obviously she's more of a mainlander than a Hongkonger and things are going to become even more difficult and explosive.