The Exigent Duality
Thumb in Eye - 07:47 CST, 6/22/19 (Sniper)
I see this kind of situation with government power brokers all of the time; Carrie Lam says that the state will "do more explanation work"-- which of course translated means, "it's not the thing, but the optics of the thing, which we need to change."

I don't know the first thing about Hong Kong politics by the way-- I'm merely commenting on her quote, which has to be pretty transparent and eye rolling to her opposition.