Word: tung
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...Tsang Yok-sing made a blunder two weeks ago by saying the protesters had been "misled" into taking to the streets. As political rhetoric goes, that hardly seemed inflammatory. But to an individualistic population that is not easily led?and whose core beef was misleadership on the part of Tung?it was a major insult. Tsang quickly apologized. The dab is now split between stubborn stalwarts and more-flexible members who fear losing Legco elections scheduled for next year. That faction openly admits that Tung blew the Article 23 debate...
...Other establishment types are appearing more liberal than ever before. Gordon Wu, one of the territory's biggest builders, recently supported a shuffle of Tung's Cabinet to bring in "new blood." Allen Lee, a former chairman of the pro-business Liberal Party, lost a Legco race a few years back and, surprisingly, was thus converted to the virtues of democracy. "No one can accept the fallacy anymore that Hong Kong people are apolitical and that we don't care who our leader is," he says. "The only thing to do to move on toward democracy is to keep protesting...
...biggest transformation has come from current Liberal Party leader James Tien. A well-heeled son of a textile tycoon, he had been appointed a member of Tung's Cabinet. It was Tien who raced to Beijing after the huge rally on July 1 and, on his return, made the stunning announcement that Beijing wasn't fully aboard Tung's Article 23 plan. Specifically, he said that the director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office in Beijing, Liao Hui, felt it wasn't necessary to push the bill through last week, as Tung was demanding. Tien then said...
...dare to go to Beijing right now." Tien has become an unexpected hero of democracy among the Hong Kong masses, although he's clearly unused to the role. He doesn't want a change in government, although he admits that the protesters do. "My heart is still with Mr. Tung," he says. But when asked if Tung is merely badly advised or a lousy leader, Tien replies: "Both...
...Even Beijing seems confused. President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have tried to color themselves as more responsive to the masses than their imperious predecessor Jiang Zemin, the man who anointed Tung. But at the same time, they've been careful not to cede too much authority. Hong Kong threatens to undo that careful balance between listening to what people want and caving in to their demands. Caught flat-footed by the scope of the protests and the discontent in Hong Kong, Beijing has blacked out on the mainland all news in local Chinese-language media of the historic...