Today’s critics in Beijing are correct, however, in suggesting that Britain came late to the democracy game. Britain’s democratic impulses in the 1950s came after it had been ejected from India and the country was trying to head off revolts in several colonies. “It was at a time when Britain was introducing democracy in many of its colonies around the world, and the idea was Hong Kong should be treated the same,” said Danny Gittings, an assistant professor of law at the University of Hong Kong.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 06:13:30 +0000
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