Hong Kong and China, an unfillable ditch

【point of view】

The Hong Kong government secretary, Carrie Lam, finally withdrew the amendment to the “Fugitive Crime”. The fact that the public pushes back the decision of the authorities, which was pushed forward without paying attention to public opinion, was pushed back by protests over several months. Even for the Chinese Communist Party government, which has built a strong authority in mainland China, it was a big frustration that the bill it had supported in Hong Kong, which is part of its own country, was overturned.

Behind the withdrawal of the amendment is the government's impatience that it wants to confuse anything before the grand ceremony of the 70th anniversary of the opening of the country on October 1.

The situation in Hong Kong is the Trump administration ...