In other words, after the latest mass march that saw nearly 2 million people turn out in the city's streets, Lam has taken her biggest step yet toward meeting the movement's demands.
"I saw no future for the city when it returned to China some 20 years ago, but now it’s dangerous to live in, as the police are not protecting people."
The idea has been met with wide push back: "But Cuba is an island and Venezuela is a massive coastline... It would need massive, massive amounts of resources; probably more than the U.S. Navy can provide."
If the economy cannot be reversed... Trump will probably look for some “victory” or success to divert public attention away from deteriorating economic conditions.
"The incident that took place is unacceptable. I don’t condone violence toward the President or anyone else. I apologize that something like this happened at my event."
"As long as the US doesn’t deploy such systems to Europe, we won’t do the same, and as long as there are no US missiles in Asia, there won’t be our missiles in the region."