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Hong Kong chief executive hopeful is not afraid to shoot from the hip
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Mr Checkley Sin Kwok Lam has been an active political commentator since the 2019 unrest.
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HONG KONG - Chief executive hopeful Checkley Sin Kwok Lam, the first to announce his intention to run in the coming election, wears many hats - such as award-winning producer of Ip Man movies and Internet celebrity - but he gained his reputation among pro-Beijing fans as a harsh critic of the government.
In fact, he has no qualms calling Hong Kong's current leader Carrie Lam "tian zhen er" or "naive goose", a play on her Chinese name, or describing the government as "timid".
