Word: tung
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...Though Tung announced halfhearted concessions to the crowds, including the scrapping of provisions giving police arbitrary powers to enter homes, he has not addressed the underlying crisis of confidence in his government. His concessions failed to go far enough, provoking a sharp public reaction. Even Hong Kong's popular former Chief Secretary Anson Chan broke her usual queenly reticence. "Both the government and the Legislative Council have demonstrated that they were not responsive to community aspirations," she stated. "It almost seems as if they're daring the people to take to the streets...
...Tung's troubles could quickly become Beijing's. "Because the Chinese leadership backed Tung," notes Shi Yinhong, a political scientist at People's University in Beijing, "the standing of the central government itself is on the line." Hong Kong's chief has made his city emblematic of a smoldering Chinese issue: the funereal pace of political reform. --By Liam Fitzpatrick
...with precedents in which populations achieve political change by asking for it politely, and that's the protesters' problem: What do they want, and how do they hope to achieve it? They've all but won the battle over the subversion and treason legislation informally known as Article 23. Tung agreed to amend or delete the most invidious clauses (which even Beijing didn't particularly seem to want). When the bill comes before Legco again, he'll almost certainly have to allow the kind of reasonable debate that he waved away in the past, thereby precipitating the current crisis...
...Hong Kong despite its Public Enemy No. 1 status on the mainland?struck eerie, twisted meditation poses and hoisted notices accusing Beijing of "genocide" against their fellow members. As a whole, the rally gave off a confusion of messages. Some placards condemned the National Security Bill that Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa was forced to modify, and then shelve temporarily, after the huge protest the week before. Others quoted Abraham Lincoln?"Government of the people" and so on?to demand major democratic reforms for Hong Kong. A popular T shirt had a more pointed, but still polite, directive...
...TUNG STEP DOWN PLEASE...