Ordinary Gweilo

The local news still seems to be dominated by the rather tedious debate about democracy and patriotism. I am at a disadvantage watching the TV news because my Cantonese is nothing like good enough to understand what they are talking about, but I think I recognize those sinster guys who are wheeled out to tell us what the Basic Law really means.

Meanwhile, Martin Lee and his chums are in Washington meeting US senators to talk about democracy. I find it hard to believe that someone as intelligent as Martin Lee can really believe that doing this is helpful. There are a very large number of governments across the world that would listen politely to lectures from the American government about democracy and even do something about it, but China isn’t one of them.

Or perhaps I am being unfair to Martin Lee. Maybe he will tell the senators that nothing has been decided, and that foreign interference is likely to be counter-productive so they should keep out of this for the time being.