To improve Hong Kong's deteriorating image, the starting point is Hong Kong, not overseas

LESS than a month after assuming office, Chief Executive John K.C. Lee faces a major stumbling block in his much ballyhooed campaign to promote Hong Kong in the international community by "telling a good Hong Kong story."

Even before he was handpicked by China as the sole candidate in the chief executive election on May 8, Lee spoke about countering what he called "smearing" of Hong Kong by "foreign forces" by promoting a different narrative.