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...outcry for similar rights on the mainland and continues to stifle reform. Hong Kong's administration, which is chosen with Beijing's blessings, has not pressed the issue, either. "I don't like the way this government is acting," Chan says. She is particularly critical of Chief Executive Donald Tsang - her onetime civil-service subordinate - who, she says, has excluded supporters of democracy from the debate over universal suffrage. "For a Chief Executive who doesn't have a popular mandate, it seems to me all the more important that you embrace all the political parties. How else can you create...
...bidding became public. In 2000, ox, monkey and tiger heads from the same water clock surfaced in Hong Kong auctions, sales that were denounced by China's State Bureau of Cultural Relics. "It's ridiculous that they brought them back to a part of China to be sold," says Tsang Kin-shing, a Hong Kong district councilor who helped organize public protests against the auctions. "If we stole the Eiffel Tower and ... took it to France to auction, the French people would definitely not be happy...
...this fashionably eclectic city, whose most recognizable government official, Chief Executive Donald Tsang, sports an idiosyncratic bow tie, top-down fashion mandates are something of a risky thing. So it's perhaps unsurprising that only a few of Sunday's demonstrators sported anything near the prescribed white. For the marchers, clad in Che Guevara and Hard Rock Cafe t-shirts, skinny jeans and cargo shorts, a consistent look proved difficult...
...consistent message proved just as elusive. Inconsistency has been the norm ever since 500,000 people took to Hong Kong's streets on July 1, 2003 to protest everything from a controversial security bill to the mishandling of the SARS crisis to Tsang's unpopular predecessor, Tung Chee-hwa. It may have started out as a pro-democracy march, but democracy is not necessarily foremost on the minds of the marchers. If you missed the "One Person, One Vote!" placards carried by democracy advocates (helpfully printed in Sunday's edition of Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper), it would have...
...march's organizers had sought to prove that Hong Kong's denizens remain hungry for universal suffrage: currently, the Chief Executive and much of the legislature are chosen by small groups of business leaders friendly to Beijing. (Tsang has said the issue of direct elections "will be resolved" during his current term in office, which expires in 2012.) But with the economy booming, it has become harder to make a case against the status quo. Police and organizers quibbled over the number of attendees at the demonstration, placing it somewhere between 20,000 and 70,000, but either...