Lam, Carrie

mar22

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam will not be pursuing a second term in office, she said during a press conference on Monday.

“This is not a question of evaluating my performance or the performance of the Hong Kong SAR government in this term. This is a question of my personal wish and aspiration,” Lam said in response to a question on why she would not run for the upcoming chief executive election.

She said her decision is “entirely based on” her family considerations. Lam is married with two sons.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/04/hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-says-she-wont-seek-second-term.html

nov20

A chefe do Executivo de Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, afirmou na sexta-feira que tem “pilhas de dinheiro” em casa, pois após as sanções impostas pelos Estados Unidos não pode ter uma conta bancária.

https://www.istoedinheiro.com.br/chefe-do-executivo-de-hong-kong-alvo-de-sancoes-dos-eua-nao-tem-conta-bancaria/

nov20

Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, has defended the crackdown on opposition by her government and Beijing, and praised the widely criticised national security law – while seeking to blame the city’s woes on foreign interference and the pandemic. Lam’s annual policy address – which was postponed from October to allow for further consultation with Beijing – was delivered on Wednesday to a legislative council without its opposition members after the mass resignation of the pro-democracy caucus. Lam said Hong Kong had experienced “multiple blows” including the mass protests, a worsening economy and unemployment because of the pandemic, and “national security threats due to foreign interference”. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/25/remarkably-effective-carrie-lam-praises-hong-kong-national-security-law-in-annual-address

nov20
O vice-primeiro-ministro chinês Han Zheng elogiou hoje a líder de Hong Kong por ter "restaurado a ordem" e "reavivado a economia" da região semiautónoma de Hong Kong, abalada por protestos em 2019. https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/mundo/1621251/vice-primeiro-ministro-chines-elogia-lider-de-hong-kong

Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing leader Carrie Lam on Wednesday described the security law as “the most significant development” since the city’s handover to China. https://en.brinkwire.com/news/how-the-world-reacted-to-hong-kongs-new-security-law/

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7/7
A Chefe do Executivo de Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, disse ontem que o seu Governo vai implementar “vigorosamente” a nova lei de segurança imposta por Pequim, deixando um aviso aos activistas “radicais” A governante avisou ainda os ativistas “radicais” para não “passarem a linha vermelha, porque as consequências de violar a lei são muito graves”. Carrie Lam defendeu novamente o diploma imposto por Pequim ao território, afirmando que ajudará a restaurar a estabilidade e a confiança após meses de protestos, no ano passado. A lei “não é tão sombria como parece para Hong Kong”, disse Lam, defendendo que, “com o tempo (…), a confiança será maior” no futuro do território.

 https://jtm.com.mo/actual/chefe-executivo-diz-vai-aplicar-vigorosamente-lei/

30/6

Speaking at a weekly press conference Tuesday morning, the city's leader Carrie Lam initially refused to answer questions about the law, saying it was "inappropriate for me to comment." Hours later she later defended it in a video speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, saying it will restore stability and prosperity to Hong Kong. Her administration appears to have been cut almost completely out of the process -- yet it has not stopped them predicting the law will only impact a tiny minority of individuals in the city, and won't harm political freedoms and judicial autonomy. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/30/asia/hong-kong-china-national-security-law-intl-hnk/index.html

CL: Cheng graduated the following year and soon joined Hong Kong’s civil service. Over the course of a 40-year career, she held around 20 different roles and was sent to study at Cambridge University in England and work in the United States on a Fulbright fellowship, all of which culminated in 2017 with the ultimate promotion. She would be Hong Kong’s fourth chief executive, and the first woman to get the job. By then, Cheng had married a soft-spoken mathematician, had two sons, and was known by a new name: Carrie Lam. China’s growing power in relation to Hong Kong was deeply unsettling to residents, and worries over the clamping down on long-held freedoms were growing. In her acceptance speech, Lam acknowledged a “serious divisiveness” in Hong Kong. The city had “accumulated a lot of frustration,” she said. Her priority would be “to heal the divide and to ease the frustration—-and to unite our society to move forward.” In early 2019, at Beijing’s behest, lawmakers tried to push a law promoting the broadcast of China’s national anthem. Then, last spring, Lam moved to pass a bill allowing extraditions to the mainland—triggering fears over an erosion of Hong Kong’s autonomy. The decision, which Lam has insisted was hers alone, was the first in a series of enormous political miscalculations. Hong Kong’s chief executive is elected by a small group stacked with Beijing loyalists. In the end, Lam took 777 of 1,186 ballots cast. The Cantonese word for seven sounds similar to slang for penis, and Lam’s vote total quickly led to obscene puns—an inauspicious start to her tenure. She said there are no politicians in the government.” Lam dismissed a July report that she had attempted to resign but was blocked from doing so by Beijing, but in an August recording leaked to Reuters, Lam told a gathering of business leaders that she did want to quit. Lau Siu-kai, vice chairman of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macau Studies, a semi-official advisory body set up by Beijing, told me he believed Lam would serve her full term. “Any concession … is a sign of weakness,” he said.  Asked in 2017 what her own litmus test for her time in office would be, Lam replied, “I want Hong Kong people to be happy and possess hope.” Ever the overachiever, fetishizing ranks and standings, Lam has failed by her own benchmark.

18/6

CL: The extradition bill, legislation pushed by Lam herself, catastrophically backfired, to the extent that she and her staff now appear entirely cut out of the loop by mainland officials who have taken the reins of Hong Kong’s most important policy-making decisions. Her administration has been unable to answer even the most basic questions about the national-security law, desperately trying to reassure people that things will be fine despite the litany of warning signs to the contrary. Lam, in recent days, has pivoted from the pleasantries, referring to those who oppose the law as “enemies of the people.” ... Lam is already the most unpopular and calamitous leader in Hong Kong’s modern history, her decisions and failures of governance having borne consequences that are global in reach History will perhaps judge Lam as the leader who killed her city without needing any tanks. There is no doubt that Lam’s own personality and character have been significant factors driving the widespread discontent in Hong Kong.  https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/06/carrie-lam-hong-kong-china-protest/612955/

11/6

A líder de Hong Kong disse ontem que todos os lados devem aprender a lição dos protestos pró-democracia, que começaram exactamente há um ano, e que o território não pode voltar ao caos. “Todos têm de aprender a sua lição, incluindo o Governo de Hong Kong”, afirmou ontem Carrie Lam aos jornalistas, no dia em que fez um ano que cerca de um milhão de pessoas saiu à rua para protestar contra as emendas à lei da extradição no território. Lam não detalhou que lições deviam ter sido tiradas. “Hong Kong não pode suportar esse tipo de caos, e o povo de Hong Kong quer um ambiente estável e pacífico para poder viver e trabalhar aqui feliz”, disse https://pontofinalmacau.wordpress.com/2020/06/10/carrie-lam-diz-que-um-ano-depois-todos-devem-aprender-a-licao-dos-protestos/

4/6China’s leadership has heard the opinion of Hong Kong’s people on a tailor-made
national security law for the city, and the central government remains determined to go ahead for the sake of national sovereignty as well as stability.
That was the message Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor had for the city on Wednesday at the end of her one-day visit to Beijing, where she and her key legal and security officials met the top Chinese leader in charge of Hong Kong affairs, Vice-Premier Han Zheng.https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3087426/beijing-has-heard-opinion-hong-kong-people-and-remains-very?utm_medium=email&utm_source=mailchimp&utm_campaign=enlz-scmp_today&utm_content=20200604&MCUID=3d06933c40&MCCampaignID=dbc6c55953&MCAccountID=3775521f5f542047246d9c827&tc=7