Posted on 06/14/2019 11:28:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hong Kong’s embattled government was working to defuse the crisis over its controversial extradition bill with a possible pause for further discussion, sources told the South China Morning Post on Friday, with the clock ticking towards another showdown with protesters planning a mass rally on Sunday.
Several heavyweight advisers to the city’s leader suggested there was no need for Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor to meet a self-imposed July deadline to have the bill passed.
But divisions emerged within the Executive Council, with others suggesting she should stick to her guns and continue to fast-track it through the legislature. Exco convenor Bernard Chan said it would be impossible to rush through the amended legislation, which would allow the transfer of fugitives from Hong Kong to mainland China and other jurisdictions with which the city has no extradition treaty, while fellow advisers Dr Lam Ching-choi and Fanny Law Fan Chiu-fun both advocated taking a step back.
Ronny Tong Ka-wah, a vocal supporter of the bill in Exco, said he would not object to a deferral and called for talks to find a middle-ground solution.
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Oh, a "pause", perhaps? That's so nice of the Big Government Chicoms.
Oh, and look at all of those pretty lights from the crowd in the picture.
Long live the 2A in the USA. It's what will keep us from being like them.
Good. That is encouraging. Maybe they will scrap the whole idea completely.
Carrie Lam is shedding a tear because her value and stock just went down in Beijing.
"...by bewildering ourselves in groping for the middle way..." John Adams.
The middle-way groping is enabling the communist ratchet effect.
Long enough to mobilize two million troops to arrest the protester.
Smile for the Chinese camera, because it goes to your social credit score!
“Long enough to mobilize two million troops to arrest the protesters.”
Bingo.
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