Hong Kong’s beleaguered Chief Executive Carrie Lam has arrived in Beijing on a trip to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior officials, where she will give an update on the violent protests that have gripped the city for the past six months.
The visit by Lam, whose administration has been fiercely criticized for its handling of the unrest, comes after an estimated 800,000 people took to the streets in a demonstration last week, and follows a landslide victory by opposition pro-democracy parties over her pro-establishment allies in local elections.
“The purpose of the duty visit is to give a full account of what has happened in Hong Kong over the past year,” Lam said in a press briefing on December 10. “Particularly what has happened in Hong Kong in the last six months.”
Protests have raged in Asia’s premier financial hub since June, when large crowds took to the streets to oppose a controversial extraditions bill. Although Lam’s government eventually withdrew the proposed law, the protesters’ demands have since broadened.
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