It is dangerous for Hong Kong. I don’t know what the people in Beijing want. Up to now, they have no intention to interfere. Now, I see four players:
- The protesters: they don’t have any intention to stop.
- The people: a large part of our population is supporting them.
- The SAR government: it is incapable of doing anything, Carrie Lam has admitted it. The government is made up of very competent administrators but there are no politicians.
- Beijing: they have no intention to interfere.
If all this doesn’t change, we cannot expect it to end.
The Central and the SAR governments want to appeal to the public to denounce the radicals. But is not working.
My hope lies in the protesters; it seems that, recently, some of them have called to stop the violence. And there is a very good reason for that. Elections are coming and it is very probable, as public sentiment is very much against the government, that if they take place in November, the pro-government camp will lose.