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...orchestrated by China has pricked Hong Kong's democracy bubble. Beijing has become savvier about dealing with the city, seemingly taking into account public opinion even as it increasingly calls the shots. In March, the Chinese leadership nudged Hong Kong's aloof and deeply unpopular Chief Executive, Tung Chee-hwa, into resigning. That paved the way for Tung's No. 2, Donald Tsang, a gregarious, astute career civil servant with the common touch. Beijing has publicly backed him as the best man to run Hong Kong-even though some of the city's pro-China leaders openly question his "patriotic...
...think he was too nice a man, not sufficiently young and limber. He wasn't a street fighter." LEE KUAN YEW, Singapore's founding father, on former Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's inability to quell widespread dissatisfaction with his administration...
Tsang was approved for the post after the Beijing central government accepted the resignation of former Chief Executive Tung Chee-Hwa...
Confirming what was common knowledge in Hong Kong, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa announced last week that he had resigned. While Tung said he was leaving because the job was wearing him down, China's leaders have clearly telegraphed in recent months their unhappiness with Tung's inability to run Hong Kong to their satisfaction. How will his successor, 60-year-old Chief Secretary Donald Tsang, fare? That's one of the many questions being asked about Hong Kong's new leader. Here are the critical ones, and the answers to them...
...Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, last week's annual Policy Address should have been an opportunity to brag. The economy has revived after seven lean years and the scary days of SARS. Millions of mainland tourists are streaming across the border. And prices for property, the economy's lifeblood, have zoomed up by more than 30% in the last year. Yet last week, Tung stood at the rostrum of the Legislative Council looking like he'd rather be in the dentist's chair. "We fell short of thinking what people think and addressing people's pressing needs...