Hong Kong Protest Demands Are Unrealistic, Singapore PM Says
- Protesters want to ‘humiliate and bring down the government’
- Lee faults Hong Kong’s ‘conservative’ approach to housing
Demonstrators raise their hands up during a protest in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong on Oct. 2.
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Protesters in Hong Kong are making unrealistic demands in an effort to take down the government, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said.
“Those are not demands which are meant to be a program to solve Hong Kong’s problems,” Lee said at the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Singapore on Wednesday. “Those are demands which are intended to humiliate and bring down the government. And then what?”