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This, naturally, has Beijing alarmed. China's leaders have backed Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa because they believed he could keep Hong Kong in its place. And until now, the city's faux Parliament could be counted on to rubber-stamp any legislation put forward by his administration. But Tung has lately mishandled a string of crises--economic, epidemiological (SARS hit the city hard) and now a constitutional one--thereby politicizing Hong Kong and becoming a liability to Beijing...
...dubious piece of legislation only partially explains the mass gathering at Victoria Park and subsequent protest march to the city's Central Government Offices. Hong Kong's normally apolitical masses are also deeply frustrated over their sliding economic fortunes and civil liberties since Beijing appointed unpopular Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa to baby-sit Hong Kong...
...Hong Kong International Literary Festival?that sure sounds like an oxymoron. Isn't Hong Kong the place where residents are interested exclusively in the Hang Seng Index, Rolex watches and, um, Rolex watches? Where the closest thing to a hot comic novel is Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's latest plan to stabilize the real estate market...
...Cynics say Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's administration is plagued by an intelligence gap-government officials are simply not up to the job and, lacking any experience of elective office, have little idea how to communicate with the public. Another view is that the highly paid bureaucrats and businessmen who now lead Hong Kong are far too concerned about how they are perceived in Beijing and not sufficiently bothered about local public opinion. Both views add up to a sense of continual official bungling, underlined by a failure to appreciate just how this fecklessness causes communal disquiet...
...absent outside interference. Brooke points to a similar, and ineffective, halt to government land sales in 1998 as evidence that the new policy is misguided. Indeed, past attempts to micro-manage the market seem to have done more harm than good. In 1997, Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa embarked on a 10-year plan designed to increase home ownership in Hong Kong. But the subsidized housing scheme ran straight into the teeth of an economic recession, causing home prices to fall more steeply...