Students Underwhelmed by Hong Kong Chief Executive’s Speech

Leung Chun-ying, the chief executive of Hong Kong, held a long awaited press conference late into the night Thursday, making clear that he had no intention of stepping down, but conceding that a representative from his office—Carrie Lam, the chief secretary, his second in command—would meet with the students soon to discuss their demands for political reform.
Students Underwhelmed by Hong Kong Chief Executive’s Speech
Thousands of Pro-democracy protesters attend a peaceful demonstration at the Government Complex in Hong Kong on October 2, 2014. (Benjamin Chasteen/Epoch Times)
Matthew Robertson
10/2/2014
Updated:
10/15/2014

Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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