Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam tried to defend her government in the face of public condemnation over the brutal crackdown of peaceful demonstrators who oppose the proposed amendments to the extradition law. In a recent interview, she compared herself to a loving mother and the one million protesters to “wayward children”—a type of communist propaganda to describe the relation between the state and its people.
During a morning interview on June 12 with TVB, a Hong Kong-based pro-Beijing TV station, Lam insisted that the Hong Kong government has been doing the right thing from the beginning. She compared herself to a loving mother and the one million protesters to misbehaving children who cry and scream to demand what they want.
