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...Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa announced on Friday that he was shelving a proposed set of statutes on subversion, secession and sedition that he had tried railroading through earlier this year?until 500,000 Hong Kongers took to the streets on July 1 to protest. Tung wouldn't say when he might reintroduce the bills, or even whether he expects to pass them before his second term ends...
...Beijing almost certainly gave Tung the nod on his decision: its main concern was that anti-Tung (or anti-Beijing) parties might dominate the September 2004 elections for the Legislative Council, Hong Kong's lawmaking body. Hong Kong has given Beijing an unexpected lesson in Politics...
...APPOINTED. HENRY TANG and AMBROSE LEE, as Hong Kong's financial and security secretaries, respectively, after a shake-up of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's Cabinet last month; in Hong Kong. The appointments followed the resignation of two officials after large protests against Tung's leadership and proposed security legislation...
...Beijing last weekend, Tung probably didn't hear all the criticisms that China's leaders have of him. There are many. According to my source, politburo members Luo Gan and Li Changchun have blamed the Hong Kong government for expecting fewer than 50,000 protesters on the streets on July 1, when about 500,000 actually turned out. How, they have asked, could a government be so out of touch with popular sentiment?and how could they have so badly botched the selling of Article 23? Perhaps in search of a sympathetic ear, Tung requested a meeting with Jiang Zemin...
...Hong Kong events was interference from the U.S. Such an analysis differs only in degree, not in essence, from that which claimed the 1989 Tiananmen Square rallies were orchestrated by "a tiny minority" of "counterrevolutionaries"?with foreign backing, of course. None of the main actors?not the Tung government, nor Beijing, nor even any third country?has a fundamental interest in bringing democracy to Hong Kong. For this, Hong Kong's people can only look to themselves...