From his role as security chief during the 2019 protests and unrest, to his promotion to the city’s No. 2 position, ex-police officer John Lee finally rose to the top, becoming chief executive on July 1, 2022.
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COMMENTARY & ANALYSIS
Hong Kong’s mystery guest sparks some bizarre behaviour as Handover anniversary nears
The approach of July 1 – the anniversary of our transition from not being a colony to not being even less of a colony, and the date when our new Chief takes over – has produced an outburst of over-the-top behaviour. First we were told that police were scouting Wanchai for places to station snipers.…
Hong Kong’s next leader John Lee reveals his new uniformed administration
The inauguration of the chief executive’s new fleet of apparatchiks provided the occasion, as such events usually do, for some exceptionally depressing official photography. Here is John Lee’s new team, in the smaller version. Several things stand out immediately. Firstly, the exalted reaches of government service are not a uniformed branch but somebody has done…
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