Hong Kong Chief Executive Off to a Rocky Start
Why is Hong Kong so hostile to its new chief?
Neither of Leung Chun-ying’s two predecessors in the post-1997 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region faced such widespread public anger, distrust and absence of goodwill on taking office as he has.
That is highly unusual. Hong Kong residents normally cut new leaders a lot of slack and reserve judgment till t…
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