The Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, acknowledges that the economic sanctions imposed on her by the United States following the implementation of the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law in Hong Kong have had an impact, especially on her family. However, she was reluctant to go into details.
After admitting for the first time a few days ago in an interview with Hong Kong Cable English Channel that she had large amounts of cash at home because she did not have a bank account, Mrs. Lam was asked again in an interview with the South China Morning Post on Monday, November 30, about the impact of the U.S. sanctions on her. Asked by the newspaper if she keeps a large amount of cash under her mattress, she replied, “It’s in a drawer upstairs (in the Protocol House).
In an earlier interview with Cable English, Carrie Lam admitted that the U.S. sanctions had inconvenienced her, and that she receives her monthly salary, which amounts to more than HK$300,000, in cash. However, she bluntly said it was an “honor” for her to serve in China’s national security.
In an interview with the South China Morning Post (Monday), when pressed by the newspaper’s reporters on whether her family – her husband and two sons – had been affected by the U.S. sanctions as a result of her work as chief executive, Mrs. Lam replied that the impact on them outweighed the inconvenience to her.
Mrs. Lam declined to elaborate on how the sanctions have affected her family, preferring not to go into details. She stressed that her family is still “fully behind” her in her job as chief executive, despite the U.S. sanctions.
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