SRL for [picked up]: Skipping personal pleasantries , Mr. Lee [picked up] exactly where he left off several months earlier -- before the government crackdown in China -- when he had warned that the orthodox leadership in Beijing feared a plurality of views .
ARG-M-ADV: Skipping personal pleasantries | ARG-0: Mr. Lee | ARG-M-LOC: exactly where he left off several months earlier -- before the government crackdown in China -- when he had warned that the orthodox leadership in Beijing feared a plurality of views