The new leader of hong kong, john lee, is a career and that makes him exceptional. All the previous chief executives have either been business people or drawn from the alite of the civil service. He has stressed the need to solve some of the pressing problems of the territory. One he's high lighted is housing - everybody complains about how expensive it has become.
John Lee, the successor to Chief Executive Carrie Lam, won by a predictable landslide: he is just the sort of law-and-order type party leaders in Beijing wanted. As the rich world emerges from the pandemic, surges in activity abound—particularly the opening of new businesses. And ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals, we hear about this year’s entrants from Ukraine.
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