HONG KONG – Hong Kong's leader on Tuesday criticized the “double standards” of foreign governments regarding national security, pointing to the current unrest in the United States as an example of how attitudes differ when protests hit home. “We have recently seen these kind of double standards most clearly with the riots in the United States,” Chief Executive Carrie Lam said. “We can see how local authorities have reacted.
But then last year when we had similar riots in Hong Kong, what was their position?” The U.S., Britain and some other Western democracies sharply criticized police crackdowns on anti-government protests in Hong Kong last year.