This is all i could do -- letting the world know what kind of ridiculous treatment we have received from Beijing since the handover. What kind of shitty and awful things have Hongkongers done in the past to deserve this amazingly-designed electoral model termed universal suffrage (with chinese characteristic)? This is so exhausting. At least three international scholars on politics, democracy and law told SCMP that the reform blueprint issued by Beijing on Sunday is not democratic. //“This is a sad day for Hong Kong, and for democracy,” Professor Larry Diamond, senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, said in an email interview. “This seems to be about the worst outcome imaginable. No progress toward democracy, not even a timetable toward democracy, and frankly, not even an effort to gesture toward democracy.” “I not only don’t see historic progress, I don’t see any progress. What is historic about this decision is the tragic loss of an opportunity to seek consensus around a strategy and timetable for meaningful democratic reform.” “The essence of democracy is to trust the choice of the people, and attempting to direct who the candidates should be undermines that great virtue,” Professor Gerry Stoker said.//
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:31:20 +0000
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