Oct 22: CE says masses would dominate in fair vote (!!!)
2014-12-30 Hong Kong Democracy File - Essential Reading
My photos of students democracy protests at Mong Kong, Admiralty, Causeway Bay & TST - and of P.L.A. armoured vehicles in Jordan
Dec
23: Lessons for Hong Kong in Macau
Visit by Chinese president
delivers ominous contrasts
Dec
3: Beijing Sends an Alarming Message on HK Visas
Ban on British MPs could extend
to anyone deemed undesirable
– like journalists or businessmen
Nov 5: HK Gap with Mainland Wider than Imagined
Nov 4: Time for protesters to move
Oct 30: Hong Kong protests bring crisis of confidence for traditional media
Oct
29: Conspiracy
Oracle Backs Beijing from Bangkok
A
shadowy “researcher” recycles doubtful claims about HK’s Occupy
Central
Oct 24: Giant pro-democracy banner hung on Lion Rock
Oct
23: HK CE Digs A New Hole
His subjects are "too stupid
to vote" !
Oct
23:
Oct
22: CE says masses would dominate in
fair vote (!!!)
Oct 21: Time for Occupy Movement to move
A
really important article:
Oct
16: HK’s Endless Road to Democracy
At all times the big business establishment - whether the opium
traders in the nineteenth century or the property tycoons of today -
have stood against representative government
Oct 12: Young people of Taiwan and Hong Kong refusing to accept the unification of 'Greater China'
Oct
6: A most important article by HK's former Chief Secretary:
Betrayed by China and abandoned by the British
(Anson Chan)
Oct 5: China Uses Triads Against Democracy Movement
Oct 5: Are we facing a new Tiananmen massacre?
Oct
1: "A critical moment for the government"
A
constitutional law expert says the Hong Kong government is at a critical
juncture and needs to be seen to be representing Hong Kong people and
not Beijing
Sep 30: Cardinal Tong: Enough violence, government must put the people first
Sep 24: While HK students stand up for the protection of HK's freedoms, HK's Mega-Rich kowtow in Beijing (this article has much information about HK's tycoons)
Sep
19: China Breaks its Promise to
HK
China fears democracy contagion
if true universal suffrage is allowed in Hong Kong
Sep
12: HK
Tycoons Go Ivy with Harvard Gift
The
Chans owe their wealth entirely to their father, and to the
developer-friendly policies of government officials. However, they again
illustrate how much of Hong Kong’s wealth is concentrated in a very
few hands, mostly developers with close ties to officials. (...and
those hands see democracy as a threat:
c.f. Hong
Kong's pro-democracy movement is about inequality. The elite knows it)
Sep
11: China
Gets it Wrong
Beijing’s
soft power hasn’t worked in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet or Xinjiang
Sep
6: A fascinating article about the history of democracy in HK:
Hong Kong, City of broken promises
HK's business
leaders stopped Britain from
giving democracy to HK people!
This
is a story that all HK people should know!
Sep 2: Newspaper drops weekly column
Sep 2: The Guardian view on charges China is reneging on its Hong Kong promises
Sep
1: Beijing
to Hong Kong: Drop Dead
Hong Kong has as much chance for
universal suffrage as Tibet
Aug 31: Beijing Gets Ugly in HK
Aug
31: Hong Kong paper claims banks pulled ads after pressure from Beijing
(Not just the banks ....many companies that do business with China
also have stopped advertising in Apple Daily)
August
20: The
Anti-Occupy Central Demonstration and its Contradictions
- free transport, shirts, food and money!
August 18 - For Chinese readers: this Apple Daily video report
August 17 "pro-Beijing" march: lots of marchers manipulated?
Hong
Kong's pro-democracy movement is about inequality. The elite knows it
What prominent tycoons really fear is a pro-democracy movement which will
convert demands for increasing suffrage into robust demands for redistribution
Beijing's tentacles enwrap Hong Kong