Hong Kong Leader Says
China Extradition Bill Is ‘Dead’ At a press conference on July 9, Hong Kong politician
Carrie Lam announced that the government’s work on
the extradition bill has been a “total failure." The controversial bill in question is one that would allow
suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial. Hundreds of thousands of people have participated in
mass protests against the bill since late March, as they
fear the bill would be used against political activists. Although Lam said the “bill is dead” and that
there is “no such plan” to restart the process,
she failed to say the bill was fully withdrawn. This wording, combined with her previous promise that the bill would “die” by 2020, has led protestors to react angrily to her recent announcement. Joshua Wong, one of the leaders of the protests,
reiterated their demand for the bill to be "formally
withdrawn" and accused Lam of using wordplay. Joshua Wong,
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