Hong Kong protest demands are unrealistic, Singapore PM says


FILE PIC: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that Hong Kong would need to find "political courage” to solve its housing problems. "You must be prepared to make changes which will have very significant social and economic consequences, and so far the SAR governments have gone for conservative approaches and the problem has not really significantly improved, ” he said.

SINGAPORE: 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?”

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