The governments plans. Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes reports from hong kong. Fellow citizens and members of the media. As she stood alone at the podium, carrie lam must have known every pair of eyes in hong kong was watching her. After a week of mass street protests and running battles between protesters and police, would she or wouldnt she back down and drop the widely hated extradition bill . I now announce that the government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercise. Not a withdrawal, then. So is this just a trick to pacify the protesters . It has nothing to do with an intention or wish to pacify. How could i restore, as fast as possible, the calm in society, and how could i avoid any more Law Enforcement officers and ordinary citizens being injured . The fear of more angry protesters returning to these barricades is what has prompted carrie lam and her administration to make what is clearly a major climb down. This is not a temporary pause to the extradi
Protests and running battles between protesters and police, would she or wouldnt she back down and drop the widely hated extradition bill . I now announce that the government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercise. Not a withdrawal, then. So is this just a trick to pacify the protesters . It has nothing to do with an intention or wish to pacify. How could i restore, as fast as possible, the calm in society, and how could i avoid any more Law Enforcement officers and ordinary citizens being injured . The fear of more angry protesters returning to these barricades is what has prompted carrie lam and her administration to make what is clearly a major climb down. This is not a temporary pause to the extradition bill this is an indefinite suspension. Nevertheless, it may not be enough to prevent very large crowds from coming out here again on sunday for another huge show of discontent. On wednesday, the policejust. This young protester and many of his friends will be out
Why are people still planning to march . That is a very good question. Iam standing march . That is a very good question. I am standing in victoria park, the gathering point for todays demonstration. In the coming hours they are expecting large numbers of people to turn out and much to oppose this extradition proposal. Now, there are two reasons why people will still come out. They are saying, one, although the government here was forced into a humiliating backdown, putting its extradition plans on the backburner, they want this that the protest that is it that they want carrie lam and the administration say we will not have administration say we will not have a bill which would allow residents and visitors here to face court in china. They want that bill abolished altogether. The second reason is, they are emboldened, they had a massive victory and it is a people power that hasnt done this. The government, with this system in the legislature has a number to get any bill through it onc
Daniel. This is about 40 minutes. Hello, everyone and thank you for joining us in person here today at the Atlantic Council and virtually around the world. For the conference titled china and the Global South Development and influence in the shifting global order to better understand and respond to the impact across the global south. My name is dave shulman senior director of the Atlantic Councils global china hub that has the mission of devising solutions to the global challenges posed by the rise leveraged in the Atlantic Councils work on china across the 16 programs and centers. Its a true pleasure to kick off the conference on a topic that couldnt be more timely and which is controlled with two Big Questions around state of the International Order and its intensifying strategic competition as well as to the state of progress towards the goals across much of world as countries look to rebound from the pandemic and address massive infrastructure financing gaps and harness the benefit
Now to a discussion to boost relations with developing countries amid influence featuring assistant secretary of state for east asian and Pacific Affairs daniel. This is about 40 minutes. Hello, everyone and thank you for joining us in person here today at the Atlantic Council and virtually around the world. For the conference titled china and the Global South Development and influence in the shif global order to better understand and respond to the impact across the global south. My name is dave shulman senior director of the Atlantic Councils global china hub that has the mission of devising solutions to the global challenges posed by the rise leveraged in the atlantic across the 16 programs and centers. Its a true pleasure to kick off the conference on a topic that couldnt be more timely and which is controlled with two Big Questions around the state of the International Order and its intensifying strategic competition as well as to the state of progress towards the goals across muc