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...Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong has grown steadily more prosperous. In a city whose business has always been business, the stock-market surge, real estate boom and expansive corporate behavior point to a bullish future. The place feels surprisingly relaxed. Public confidence in the new leadership is running high: C.H. Tung's favorable rating was 59%, according to a TIME/CNN poll by Yankelovich Partners Inc. While an estimated 387,000 citizens made a preliminary negative bet on the outcome and emigrated over the past few years, many have been coming home as their confidence returns...
...plenty of people in Hong Kong are still concerned that their civil liberties are not protected well enough. When Tung attempted to curtail public protests even moderately, he ran into an international hailstorm of criticism. Observers grew even more anxious when Tung publicly suggested on the eve of this year's June 4 rally that it was time for Hong Kong to "forget the baggage" of Tiananmen. The Independent Commission Against Corruption is widely credited with cleaning up Hong Kong's notoriously graft-riddled police and civil service in the late '70s and maintaining a staunch bulwark against the rampant...
...troops into Hong Kong just six hours after it regains control over the British colony, sparking fears among democratic activists that a crackdown on civil liberties cannot be far behind. Although the planned deployment would roughly match current British troop levels, today's announcement by the incoming government of Tung Chee-hwa was met with derision by colonial Governor Chris Patten. He warned that the sight of armored cars in the streets on July 1 would send "a very bad signal to Hong Kong and the rest of the world." To reach their barracks on Hong Kong Island...
...June 4 in Beijing?s Tiananmen Square protests, reads: ?The old cannot kill the young forever.? City Hall had rejected an application from Democratic leaders to display the statue, saying it was contrary to what the government calls the celebratory spirit of China's impending takeover. Incoming leader C.H. Tung also criticized the planned protest, asking people to drop ?the baggage of June 4? and try to achieve a smooth transition to Chinese rule. While China has stayed out of the controversy so far, Tung is reluctant to provoke Beijing. Which means that when June 4 rolls around next year...
...course, easier to be the Emperor's conscience than to be the Emperor himself. Lee's challenge after the hand-over is to retain his moral authority yet not use it to provoke the very crackdown he decries. The challenge facing Tung is far tougher. He has the unenviable task of ruling with the mandate of a mistrusted regime and without the popular mandate of the people. He must ensure that Hong Kong will enjoy the "high degree of autonomy" China promised. And he must prove to Beijing that Hong Kong will not become a dangerous base for subversion...