Charles Tsu Kwok Ho: Once Called on John Lee to Urge Carrie Lam Not to Push the Amendment — “He Didn’t Even Really Understand the Sanctions Against Him”
何柱國：曾喚李家超勸林鄭勿推修例 「連制裁佢都唔係幾明」
Former National Committee member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Charles Tsu Kwok Ho recently told Chip Tsao in an interview, revisiting the 2019 anti-extradition amendment events, that before the authorities introduced the amendment to the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, he had separately advised then Chief Executive Carrie Lam and Secretary for Security John Lee that it would otherwise bring US sanctions, but neither accepted his advice. He further disclosed that he had explained the consequences of the amendment to John Lee at a Jockey Club café, but Lee “didn’t even really understand the sanctions against him”: “I knew, because even Carrie Lam didn’t really understand. She was someone who specialised in security; she wasn’t in business, so she wouldn’t understand it. But I also explained it to her.”
前全國政協委員何柱國日前接受陶傑訪問，重提2019年反修例事件，指在當局推出《逃犯條例》修訂前，曾先後向時任行政長官林鄭月娥、保安局局長李家超勸諫，不然將引來美國制裁，但二人並未接納。他更透露曾在馬會咖啡店內，向李家超解釋修例的後果，但對方「連制裁佢都唔係幾明」：「我知道，因為連林鄭月娥都唔係幾明，佢係一個專門管保安嘅，佢唔係做生意佢唔會聽得明，但我亦都解釋過俾佢聽。」