See the thumbs down marked by the red circle. What disrespect to the HK leader. We must never ever get anywhere near to that point.
Li Xueying says HK Chief needs to lead the way on democracy. My question is how do you suppose he do that? Real power does not reside with him but China. A great moat separates the leaders in Beijing from the Hongkongers.
I don't know, but I think at the end of the day as China had always done if she would buy progress with very painful trade offs. The human costs would often be scary, the tactics brutal. As Xi Jinping has finally revealed himself to be a closet conservative, the people of Hong Kong are not by a long shot going to get what they want.
Regina Yip the former security chief with limited imagination sees the possibility of a Tiananmen reproduced in Hong Kong. He is out of his mind. The PLA assets in Hong Kong are very different and more important this is not 1989 the age before pervasive Internet.
When leaders are powerless to solve problems they always buy time but it is not clear to me that CY Leung is doing that. There are no viable solutions until the external environment change or Beijing is more accommodative. Most important the wealth gap must narrow and young people have good jobs and are optimistic about the future. The tycoons have a heavy moral duty to mobilize and lead but knowing them they rather decamp to somewhere else and make more money.
Update: July 5
Understanding one more out of countless reasons why they are so unhappy.
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