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Tag Archives: politics
twenty-four years From SCMP: “An opinion piece in the Shaanxi-based Huashang Daily read on Tuesday: ‘As those who are alive, we have to find out why those who died had died, we have to assume responsibility for those who died, we have to guarantee security for those who are alive.’ The piece titled ‘We have […]
#71HK
This year, organizers’ estimates are at [400K] (last year they were around 200K). “An unexpected element…lay in the participation in the march of hundreds of mainland Chinese who carried banners denouncing the confiscation of their farms for government-backed real estate projects in communities near Hong Kong. ‘It is not possible to protest in China, so we […]
twenty-three years
“Thousands of people lit candles in Hong Kong…the only place in China where the Tiananmen Square crackdown is openly remembered” [SCMP] * It’s interesting to reread some of my notes from last year, and to remember how very vague yet distinctly present my awareness was growing up. [From June 2011] It’s easy to mythologize events […]
CE election
From WSJ, “Hong Kong Taps Beijing Ally” (written by a fellow Fulbrighter and Brunonian!): “When Beijing weighed in last week in a series of meetings with electors, it touched a sore spot with Hong Kong residents, who are increasingly sensitive about the influence of the mainland, both politically and economically.” “The leadership race was unique […]
march 2012
From [“Pro-Leung polls put Beijing in corner” (SCMP)]: “Polls showing that chief executive candidate Leung Chun-ying is building a substantial lead in popularity over Henry Tang Ying-yen – the rival that Beijing favours – will make it increasingly difficult for the central government to back Tang openly, observers said yesterday.” “Lau said that, as tensions flared, […]
“occupy Central”
[“Occupiers on the march in Kowloon” (SCMP)]: Apparently Occupy Wall Street has spread to HK? And apparently I write for SCMP (I don’t…apparently I just have a popular name). So my impression after a year is that HK protests a lot. More than you would have anticipated. Sometimes they are taken seriously, sometimes not. I’m still […]