Hong Kong Demo
The entreprenurial spirit of Hong Kong has already pretty much made the Communist Party in China a dead letter from an economic perspective. Now Gateway Pundit reports on a massive pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong.
Tens of thousands of people have joined a demonstration in Hong Kong calling for a fully-democratic political system in the Chinese autonomous territory.China, while it prospers economically, is beginning to feel the strain of its people’s demands for greater democracy. The Communist Party heirarchy, memories of Tiananmen Square still fresh, is caught between the desire to maintain the Party’s grip on all political authority and the reality that the urge to democracy and free information is growing more powerful. To liberalize an economy without liberalizing the political regime within which that economy functions is unlikely to work.
Trade unions, activists and civic groups marched with ordinary citizens, some carrying banners denouncing China.China has refused to allow people in Hong Kong to vote to elect their next leader in two years time.
Pro-democracy campaigners say if that remains the case, they should be given a timetable and told when they will be allowed to vote for who rules them.
One lawmaker, Lee Cheuk Yan, said people “are very much disappointed” over the long wait.
gateway pundit
The December 4 protest might well be the beginning of a bamboo revolution.
December 5th, 2005 at 9:16 am
Umm… could you be any more wrong in your analysis of Hong Kong?
Hong Kong’s big business tycoons are 99% pro-Beijing. The Hong Kong office of the Heritage Foundation is funded by these pro-Beijing anti-democracy tycoons.
Lee Cheuk-yan is the General Secretary of the Confederation of Trade Unions. The tycoons in Hong Kong are aligned with the CCP and their cronies locally in order to keep the trade unions and local civic groups from gaining enough power to institute measures like minimum wages/overtime pay rules and anti-monopoly laws, like the Sherman Anti-trust Laws in the US, and broadening taxes in order to pay for social services like public housing, education, public health {e.g., rape crisis centers} and taking care of the elderly.
Just as the CCP hates competition and free elections in the political arena, the big money in South China hates competition and truly free markets in the economic arena.
For some photos and thoughts from the ground feel free to drop by the home of a moonbat who proudly marched in support of democracy.