It is clearly attacking ‘one country, two systems’ … and destroying the relationship between Beijing and Hong Kong,” Lam said. “It is not in the interests of Hong Kong’s development and must stop,” she said. Independence debates have moved into the mainstream after several years on the political fringes as students and other groups test Hong Kong’s freedoms. They declared that the universities did not support Hong Kong independence. Asked about Lam’s warnings, Chris Patten, Britain’s last governor of Hong Kong, urged greater efforts to engage Hong Kong’s restive young people even though he felt they should “back off” the independence issue.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 19, 2017 05:26 UTC