Laam caau
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lǎn chǎo (Cantonese: laam5 caau2) | 揽炒
Cantonese term (pronounced "lahm tsow"), a portmanteau of "embrace" and "fry," referring to a strategy invented and popularized during the 2019 Hong Kong protests, broadly meaning to force your opponent to suffer as much as you do. Coined by pro-democracy campaigner Finn Lau, who used the term as his username on Hong Kong social media platform LIHKG. Compared by some to a scorched earth strategy. Prominent pro-democracy campaigners Joshua Wong and Alex Chow expressed the idea in a New York Times op-ed in August 2019 by referencing the famous "Hunger Games" line: "If we burn, you burn with us."
Proponents of the laam caau doctrine have called for Western governments to apply international sanctions on Hong Kong and revoke Hong Kong's special trade status as a separate economic entity from China. While acknowledging the painful effect of such policies on Hong Kong's economy, they argue that it is a sacrifice worth making.
Pro-establish political parties have since co-opted the term to derisively refer to pro-democracy parties as the "laam caau faction."
In August 2020
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