“I never thought that a country with two different systems can really work for any length of the time, and sure enough this has happened,' said Dr Mahathir.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 — The prolonged protests in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong shows the limits of having two different models of government within one country, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.
“I never thought that a country with two different systems can really work for any length of the time, and sure enough this has happened. The prime minister was previously in Russia for an economic forum in its far east city of Vladivostok and from there flew straight to Japan on Thursday for a three-day working visit.
The protests are over opposition to a proposed extradition law that will allow criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial, which anti-establishment activists claim violates their democratic rights.
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