@yogthos Beijing allowed local government to handle it, as they were supposed to, but as local government consists of career bureaucrats appointed by Beijing, they are totally incompetent at understanding Hong Kong people. Carrie Lam genuinely didn't understand how the ELAB would look, how people would respond to it being rushed through LegCo and why people took to the street, so political dialogue was impossible.

She thought she was trying to reason with protesters but in the end just called them spoiled teenagers for not seeing Beijing's point of view on something that was supposedly a local matter.

@AgreeableLandscape