HK opposition cries wolf over fictional abductions

On Monday, Leung Chun-ying, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, publicly addressed the controversy surrounding the "disappearance" of the co-owners of Causeway Bay Bookstore, which is known to sell "political publications" banned on the mainland.

By accusing the central government of "orchestrating the disappearance" of the co-owners, however, some political parties in Hong Kong seem desperate to show the issue is all about the "One Country, Two Systems" principle. A few of them even insist the CBB co-owners must have been "kidnapped" by mainland agents in Hong Kong and "smuggled" into the mainland, even though they have no evidence to prove their claim.

Such wanton speculation largely fizzled out after the four CBB co-owners returned from the mainland recently. But a few parties refuse to give up their game. They somehow convinced the CBB manager named Lam Wing-kee, who returned to Hong Kong last week, to "corroborate" their story and tell the press what the opposition camp was waiting for.