Letters | How Hong Kong can still find a heroine in Carrie Lam
In many ways I feel sorry for Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor. She is wedged between a rock and a hard place.
The world is watching, and will be sympathetic to any measure promoting democracy, freedom and human rights in Hong Kong. Any interference by Beijing will be seen as the exercise of brute force it would be, and be roundly condemned.
If she has the fortitude, Lam could be the heroine of Hong Kong’s struggle for self-determination, or one of its casualties.
The choice is hers.
Gavan Duffy, Queensland
Why Hong Kong needs a shake-up at the top
A major government reshuffle is now a must, lest Hong Kong become utterly ungovernable. But I think this is already the case.
Francis Lo, North Point
What Lee Kuan Yew would have done
Starting in 1955 with the Hock Lee Bus Company strike and disorder that followed, left-wing political thought and activity began to rise in Singapore. It reached the point where the ostensibly leftist People’s Action Party, which Lee had created as his own, looked set to become genuinely leftist and veer out of his control.
Lim was successful. Indeed one wonders whether Lee would have survived politically without his crackdown. Lim’s harsh tactics, however, alienated enough Singaporeans to lose the 1959 election, ironically enough to Lee, who then embarked on his lifelong rule.
Lim later moved to Malaysia and converted to Islam.
So what would Lee have done in Hong Kong? My guess: waited for Lim Yew Hock.
Arthur Waldron, Philadelphia