were not allowed by Beijing to run or did not enter race: Paul Chan, incumbent Financial Secretary, hinted not to run after John Lee resigned Margaret Chan, former director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), nominated John Lee Norman Chan, former chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, joined John Lee's campaign office Charles Ho, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and chairman of the Sing Tao News Corporation, nominated John Lee Leung Chun-ying, vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and former Chief Executive, nominated John Lee The following persons explicitly declined to run: Charles Li, former chief executive of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Bernard Charnwut Chan, convenor of the non-official members of Executive Council Regina Ip, chairwoman of the New People's Party and member of the Executive and Legislative Councils Carrie Lam, incumbent Chief Executive Chris Tang, Secretary for Security Henry Tang, Standing Committee member of the CPPCC National Committee, former Chief Secretary for Administration and 2012 candidate Jasper Tsang, former President of the Legislative Council John Tsang, former Financial Secretary and 2017 candidate Campaign Lee unveiled his election manifesto on 29 April, vowed to strengthen governance, boost land and housing supply, improve Hong Kong's competitiveness and build a caring society if elected. Lee also announced legislating the city's own security law under Article 23 of the Basic Law. The manifesto was only announced nine days before election, making it the latest and also the shortest amongst all past candidates in the Chief Executive election. On 19 April, the YouTube channel of Lee, an SDN, was disabled in order for Google to comply with United States sanctions. Tam Yiu-chung, the campaign chief of Lee, said the move was illogical. Lee's Facebook account was not axed but was demonetized and prevented from using payments services. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China slammed Google's move, of which owned YouTube, and labelled the United States as interfering with Hong Kong 's election. The only election rally of Lee was on 6 May, and only joined by invitees and press. Some observers said his presentation lacked human touch. The slogan of the rally was also noticed by the public for the grammatical error, which includes the rarely used Chinese wording "我和我們" (lit. "I and We"）and erroneous English translation "We and Us". Lee's campaign office later claimed