Chief executive's constructive move to restore order in HK

Vowing to push ahead with her public dialogue platform which she proposed last month, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region chief executive announced on Tuesday that the first session would be held next week. Far from being rattled by the relentless efforts of the radicals to obstruct the process, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has been persistently endeavoring to facilitate constructive dialogue among members of the public.

The demonstrations, often accompanied by violence, over the past three months have shown the political dispute plaguing Hong Kong is no longer, or was never, about the SAR government's proposal to amend the extradition law. All along, it has been about grabbing the power to govern the SAR.

The opposition camp in Hong Kong never abandoned its policy of turning the SAR into a de facto independent political entity and hence its desperation to grab power in the SAR by exploiting the proposed extradition amendment bill in the backdrop of the Sino-US trade war.