Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, who is due in Beijing on Tuesday, also praised China’s national security law at a media address the day before.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam warned presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden to «comprehensively evaluate» the next U.S. administration’s relationship with the Chinese territory and not let «arbitrary political repression» affect American businesses’ interests. Lam is due in Beijing on Tuesday afternoon as she seeks help from the central government to revive Hong Kong’s stalling economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic. At her weekly press conference on Tuesday, Lam was asked about the elections in the United States, which she described as «a choice to be made by American voters» and part of «American internal affairs.» It would be up to the next American president and his team to consider how the government will view U.S.–China relations and the importance of Hong Kong within that relationship, she added. But the 63-year-old Beijing appointee made clear she expected the next U.S. president to thoroughly assess Hong Kong’s position in the grander scheme of relations with China. Lam called the special administrative region’s relationship with the U.
