Category: Hong Kong politics
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He’s not giving up just yet: I am writing in response to Alastair Robins of Lights Out Hong Kong. Specifically his request (Talkback, July 15) to explain the principle that man must reshape his environment to survive. Survival, in this context, does not mean living a hand-to-mouth subsistence level that so many environmentalists advocate. Rather…
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Simon Patkin is not giving up his one-man campaign against Lights Out (from the SCMP): It is very disappointing that Wellcome, ParknShop, Mannings and Ikea have agreed to support the Lights Out campaign. (Retail chains turn on to lights-off campaign, July 10). I believe this to be representative of a so-called "pragmatic approach" to green…
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I was slightly puzzled by this story from Associated Press on The Guardian website, headlined Next Hong Kong Leader to Serve Five Years. The story, of course says "two years rather than five". Fumier has a long and sensible post complaining that the SCMP and Standard have misrepresented the Law Society’s position on whether the…
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I wrote this yesterday, but never got round to posting it. Now it seems that Tung Chee Hwa is indeed about to resign as Chief Executive of the HKSAR, for "health reasons" (namely that everyone in Hong Kong is sick of him), as predicted in yesterday’s FT. It’s amusing to see the different interpretations that…
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On Wednesday I was glancing through the online edition of the SCMP and came across a rather idiotic opinion piece about Cyberport and PCCW by one John Tsang, Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology. Well, no surprise there, as the SCMP prints all sorts of nonsense on its opinion pages. What I didn’t realize until…
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Most idiotic comment on the Link Reit fiasco must be from Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands Michael Suen Ming-yeung. He is quoted as saying: "It’s like a 9/11-style attack … No one can be blamed because you can’t expect this to happen." This rather neatly sums up what went wrong. The government employed a…
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Following on from the debate about the voting system in Hong Kong, David Webb has done some detailed research and come up with an interesting analysis of how different systems might have produced different results. However, as we know, this system was put in place precisely to produce the results that is has done. He…
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Via Simon, an interesting piece in Slate about ‘Long Hair’ Leung Gwok Hung, by a journalist who also interviewed Hemlock. “Long Hair” feels that the election results were not as bad as they were portrayed: “The results aren’t a setback for democrats; we won something like 60 percent of the vote. But it was a…
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Some interesting analysis of the opinion polls from ESWN (via Simon). I wasn’t aware of this, but it seems that the DAB’s share of the vote is consistently under-estimated in opinion polls. This is not a new phenomenon, and interestingly, there’s a piece in this week’s Economist about the differing results from opinion polls on…
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I was mildly encouraged by the results of the LegCo elections (as already covered by Phil, Simon and others). The turnout was up, and considering that this was election to select an opposition rather than a government it was amazing that so many people bothered to turn out. If you compare the turnout on Sunday…
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