Politics

Northern Metropolis or ‘castle in the air’? Critics mostly agree on direction of Hong Kong leader’s policy blueprint, but question cost of grand plans



Hong Kong’s leader is taking the city in the right direction with her ambitious Northern Metropolis proposal and other measures to boost economic development, analysts and lawmakers have said, while also urging her to elaborate on how to finance such plans.A political observer argued, however, that Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor had missed an opportunity in her policy address on Wednesday to reflect on her inadequacies and mend the social divide.In the speech, Lam’s fifth and final…



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