Stacks of banknotes in house leader Hong Kong | Abroad

Lam is one of the highest paid politicians in the world, with a salary of 560,000 euros per year, according to the British newspaper The Guardian. At the same time, she is Hong Kong’s least popular leader since its handover to China in 1997. Following her comment, social media users posted pictures of their piggy bank at home contrasting her wealth. Others wondered how all that money is being delivered to her home.

The US government has previously punished the leadership of the Chinese city of Hong Kong and other top Chinese figures with the sanctions after a strict security law was introduced by the communist regime in Beijing. The relative autonomy of the former British Crown Colony, which has been a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China since 1997, is being lost by that law, according to critics.

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