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...huge meeting - an international convention with delegates from everywhere. And that's when they decided that humans were the up-and-coming species and dogs were going to throw their lot in with them. The decision was obviously not unanimous. The wolves and dingoes walked out in protest...
...Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think not. After all, it is perfectly normal, indeed, deeply human to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. Should we not be moved when it produces a vision - a creature - of the purest sweetness...
Using a specific issue as pretext for a general protest is a classic Chinese political tactic. The 1989 protests that led to the Tiananmen massacre began with a memorial gathering for Hu Yaobang, the disgraced Chinese Communist Party General Secretary. Last week's huge march in Hong Kong against new antisubversion laws (known as Article 23) fit the pattern--with crowds estimated at 500,000, it was the largest pro-democracy protest in China since 1989--as does a rally planned for this week at the city's Legislative Council offices. "It's not just about Article 23," notes Allen...
...week, eight days after the half-million-person rally that rattled the ruling structure of the Chinese territory. This time they held a nighttime "vigil" outside the colonial landmark that houses the Legislative Council (Legco), Hong Kong's quasi-representative parliament. As solons debated a soccer-gambling bill inside, protesters carpeted the surrounding streets, waving Glowsticks, chanting slogans and singing We Shall Overcome in Cantonese and English. A Christian procession carried candles. Yellow-shirted devotees of the Falun Gong mystical movement?still legal in Hong Kong despite its Public Enemy No. 1 status on the mainland?struck eerie, twisted meditation...
...wider goalposts but had ripped off his jersey, with Beijing's encouragement no less. But last week, Tien told a slightly different story. He says he went to Beijing to warn of a "big crisis" if the Article 23 bill was pushed through: in other words, another huge public protest. Tien says Liao reminded him that the Article 23 legislation was required of Hong Kong but that the details were up to Legco?that was the whole point of the "one country, two systems" philosophy. On timing, according to Tien, Liao said that Beijing wanted the legislation passed "as soon...