Hong Kong’s equality watchdog has suspended plans for a legal amendment to protect mainland Chinese from discrimination in the city, saying the situation had improved in recent months. Linda Lam, the new chairperson of the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), said on Thursday when she met the press that the commission did not see any “urgent need” to outlaw intra-racial discrimination. “The atmosphere [between mainland Chinese and Hongkongers] is peaceful and harmonious since Hong Kong opened its borders after the pandemic, therefore we do not see any urgent need to legislate against ‘intra-r…
