Category Archives: Awaiting a Democratic HK

The China Times here said Jia Qingling, a political bureau member and deputy head of the central Taiwan Affairs Office, was to meet with the KMT group Thursday. Observers said the trip, the first official visit by the KMT to the mainland since it was defeated by communist forces in 1949, was a prelude toContinue reading “News: Taiwan opposition party group leaves for China in bid to ease tensions”

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong   taiwanprotest1    Originally uploaded by glutter. IN ONE of the largest demonstrations in Taiwan’s history, about one million demonstrators marched through the capital yesterday in protest at a new Chinese law that authorises an attack on the island if it moves toward formal independence. Politician Bikhim Hsiao led theContinue reading “News: A million Taiwanese protest at China law”

  Zhao_stamp2Mer-01    Originally uploaded by glutter. Last image of "Set 1" of the "hardcore democracy" series. The Chinese reads, "May China attain Democracy soon." and "Democracy Wall," which is where the public wrote their thoughts on the subject at the memorial service for Premier Zhao Ziyang Jan 2005.

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong. HONG KONG : Hong Kong’s justice secretary said on Sunday the government was mistaken in originally ruling the territory’s chief executive must serve a five-year term. Instead, the decision to allow the next chief executive to serve only two years was correct and the change would not damage Hong Kong’sContinue reading “News: Hong Kong government says mistaken on leadership term”

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong Dear, xxxxx (deleted) Things is a little strange over here. Veryconcerned about the politics. I think it’s time to geta foreign passport. I really like hong kong sometimes,but it totally lacks good art institutes and Chinacreeps in day by day and our government officials suckup to them more and more.Continue reading “Politics, Art, feeling tired”

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong As usual I am pissed off and saddened that Hong Kong legislators themselves do not respect the law.  It’s one thing to believe in the CCP and want to tow party line, it’s another when government officials and those who are "elected," legislators, people who are supposed to uphold theContinue reading “News: In Hong Kong, China Prefers Power to Law”

Beijing’s tightening grip on Hong Kong According to a Hong Kong-based Western diplomat, Tung’s dismissal was disturbing to the extent that factional intrigue in Beijing had become a principal determinant of who should be running the SAR. http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=10973

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong. Andres Gentry is currently working on a series of "Blogger Profiles," where he asks a number of people some ridiculously hard questions and expect us to respond. I am number 10. It took me a month to be fully able to verbalize my thoughts and even then I feel IContinue reading ““Is China Ready For Democracy?” and 20+ Really Hard Questions.”