Carrie Lam | In the line of fire
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Hong Kong’s leader has backed Beijing’s moves to erode the city’s democracy
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Hong Kong’s leader has backed Beijing’s moves to erode the city’s democracy
When Carrie Lam was in 2017 appointed as Hong Kong’s fourth Chief Executive and the first woman to lead China’s Special Administrative Region (SAR) her appointment by Beijing was greeted mostly with optimism.
Ms. Lam, who was sworn in by President Xi Jinping a month before she turned 60, had over decades of working in Hong Kong’s bureaucracy garnered the reputation of a hard-working, effective and capable bureaucrat. Hong Kong’s civil servants often like to quip that the SAR, as Asia’s financial centre, may not make anything, but it makes things happen. Ms. Lam embodied that spirit.