Carrie Lam interview: Hong Kong’s leader in her own words on protests, political turmoil and what next for the city
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor talks to the Post about her recent policy address, political turbulence, social divisions and the way forward for the city as she sees it.
Lam warns of the need for tougher measures to contain an escalating coronavirus pandemic and public cooperation to succeed. And she shares a little about her personal life – but only a little.
Read more from the interview here.
‘I’m back’: Lam says she is now more confident, resolute after last year’s protests
I could only say that I have regained confidence. After having gone through such a traumatic period, when the whole society seemed to be saying that the government wasn’t doing the right thing, when people, or even friends and colleagues around you, were pressing me to do things that I did not feel [were] right.
For example, investigating the police. I really did not think [it was] right then, and I do not think it is right now. But under that sort of undue pressure, anyone, any human being will lose a bit of confidence. Let alone all those personal attacks and intimidation on myself, on my family and so on. So I could only tell that now, I’m back to my old self.
