FT report that China is drawing up plan to replace Carrie Lam as Hong Kong chief

Financial Times with the report

  • Chinese government is drawing up a plan to replace Carrie Lam
  • with an “interim” chief executive
  • Xi Jinping, China’s president, will make the decision
  • if he agrees, Lam would be replaced by March 2020, cover the remainder of her term, which ends in 2022.
FT link (may be gated)