China has professed its support for embattled chief executive Carrie Lam even as it characterised her government’s handling of the extradition bill revision process as “inadequate” at a rare press conference in Beijing following a weekend of unrest.
Speaking to reporters in the Chinese capital in the first press conference by Beijing’s policy office on Hong Kong since the territory was handed over in 1997, press officers laid out their response to weeks of widespread demonstrations.
“Those horrendous incidents have caused serious damage to rule of law, public order, economy and people’s lives,” China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office said in a statement distributed to reporters.
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