The five-star red flag outside my office is raised at eight o'clock every morning

Before attending the Executive Council meeting this morning, I went to meet the public outside the Chief Executive's Office building as usual. There I saw Dr Kenneth Chan Ka-lok, former Legislative Council Member and Associate Professor of Hong Kong Baptist University, whom I had not seen for quite a while. I told him that the five-star red flag and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region flag were raised at eight o'clock every morning at the Chief Executive's Office building and he was welcome to come and watch.

In an interview with Ming Pao Daily News on January 18, 2015, Mr Chan said that he always challenged the students in his class by asking them whether they had ever thought that one morning they would wake up to find that the five-star red flag had failed to rise. In an article published in the same newspaper on September 12, 2016, he asked the readers to imagine a day when they woke up to find that the five-star red flag symbolising the Chinese Communist regime had failed to rise and the regime had really fallen.

January 10, 2017