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    Hong Kong's leader faces pressure to resign. Will her replacement be any better?

    by David Pierson, Los Angeles Times Jun 17, 2019 4 minutes

    HONG KONG - It seemed impossible to conceive Hong Kong could produce a more unpopular leader than Leung Chun-ying, the hapless one-term chief executive who was despised for refusing to negotiate with activists during the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement protests.

    Enter Carrie Lam, the career civil servant who's now at the center of Hong Kong's biggest political crisis since Britain returned the former colony to China in 1997.

    On Sunday, 2 million people - about one-quarter of the territory's population - crowded the city's streets and demanded her resignation for championing a now suspended extradition bill

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