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What
Actually Happened in Hong Kong?
In
fact, the Hong Kong citizen is trying to seek open election in 2017 as their Chief
Executive is not from public election but the right to choose remain to the
1200 committee
What
is all about this 1200 committee?
The official name of this 1200 is the
Election Committee, and the Standing Committee has decided to let them become a
nomination committee to vote for Chief Executive. First, Hong Kong has more than 3.5
million voters but those who can directly participate in the election committee
is less than 240,000.
The composition of the Election Committee is uneven. For example, there is only 30 people represent
on behalf the Commission of the education sector, with education of voters
registered in a total of 81,831 people. There
are 60 members represents Commission of agriculture and fisheries sector. As Hong
Kong is a modern city,only four thousand people in agriculture and
fisheries-related work, but the Agriculture and Fisheries representatives of
industry, but even more than double the education sector. What even worse is that, those 60
representatives are not qualified to vote, only government-approved 158
"voters" can exercise the voting right.
Latest Progress as per today!
65 Years of Communism and Hong Kong
Pro-democracy protests swelled in Hong
Kong on the eve of a two-day holiday that may bring record numbers to rallies
spreading throughout the city as organizers pressed demands for free elections.
With the workday ended and
temperatures dropping, thousands of people were returning to the three main
demonstration points, blocking some of the city’s roadways. Hong Kong marks
China’s National Day tomorrow, the 65th anniversary of the founding of the
People’s Republic of China and Chung Yeung Festival on Thursday, when Hong Kong
people honor their ancestors.
“It’s quite possible that at least
more than 100,000, if not up to 300,000, 400,000 people, will join in the
protest in a show of people’s power,” Willy Lam, adjunct professor at
Chinese University of Hong Kong, said in an interview today. “They want to
convince the Hong Kong government and Beijing that any use of force will be
counter-productive. It will only galvanize more of the rest of Hong Kong’s 7
million people.”
The movement, kick-started by students
on Sept. 26, swelled following weekend clashes with riot police who used tear
gas to disperse crowds. Student leaders said today that the protests would
spread if their demands aren’t met for Chief Executive Leung
Chun-ying to resign and for the government in Beijing to drop plans to
control the 2017 leadership election.
The government has pulled anti-riot police off the streets with officers standing off to avoid the clashes of Sept. 28 that angered demonstrators. The benchmark Hang Seng Index dipped again, marking its biggest two-day decline since February.
Roads Blocked
Roads leading into the Admiralty
district, where protesters have surrounded the government headquarters,
continued to be blocked with workers commuting by foot and metro. Crowds this
evening are also gathering at the popular shopping districts of Causeway Bay
and Mong Kok.
“This movement is to achieve universal
suffrage and get the National People’s Congress to take back their decision,”
Alex Chow, one of the student leaders, said at a press conference today. “Yet
we see that CY Leung doesn’t seem to be communicating with the top and with the
people and he doesn’t understand what democracy is. So to achieve democracy, we
must start with asking Leung to step down.”
When asked at a press conference today
whether he would resign, Leung said that “any personnel changes” would result
in the existing election committee choosing his successor, rather than through
a vote.
Long Day
At the briefing, Leung dismissed
speculation that the People’s Liberation Army, which was used to crush the 1989
Tiananmen Square demonstrations, would be used in Hong Kong. He also said that
the city was preparing for the protests to last.
“The impact from Occupy Central would
not be just three to five days -- it could be quite long,” Leung said, citing
the protesters’ road blocks, medical aid centers and supply stations.
The students called for Leung to
respond to their demands by tomorrow. Leung is due to mark the founding of
modern China at an 8 a.m. ceremony near where the main protests are being held.
The popular firework show over Victoria Harbour for the holiday has been
canceled.
The demonstrations coincide with
Golden Week, a week-long holiday in China when hundreds of thousands of people
from the mainland travel to Hong Kong. Some retailers are closing outlets, with Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd., the world’s
largest jewelry chain, shutting about 20 shops today, after keeping more than
25 closed yesterday.
Property Prices
The real estate market is also feeling the effects of the
protests. Apartment viewings dropped 50 percent because of the unrest,
Centaline Property Agency Ltd, the biggest privately held realtor in Hong Kong,
said in an e-mail. Prices may show a decline if the rallies last more than a
week, the broker said.
The
protests -- spurred by China’s decision last month that candidates for the 2017
leadership election must be vetted by a committee -- pose the biggest challenge
to China’s control of the city since British colonial rule ended in 1997.
At the time, the Chinese government
pledged to maintain the city’s freedoms under its “one country, two systems”
approach. China had endorsed the idea of holding elections in Hong Kong as far
back as 1990 with the adoption of the city’s basic law, a type of constitution.
As China’s influence has grown within the Hong Kong government, pro-democracy
activists stepped up their fight for a open election when the city holds its
first vote for chief executive in 2017.
The clashes with police this week were
the city’s biggest since unrest in the 1960s led by pro-Communist groups
inspired by Mao ZeDong’s Cultural Revolution. Police
arrested 89 people during the weekend demonstrations, a spokesman said.
Foreign Support
The U.S. government supports the
aspirations of the Hong Kong people for universal suffrage and called on the
authorities to exercise restraint, said White House spokesman Jose Earnest.
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron's government said it was
important for Hong Kong to preserve rights and freedoms for its people,
including the right to demonstrate, according to an e-mailed statement from the
Foreign Office. Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou, whose government fled after
losing China’s civil war, said he supports the Hong Kong people’s pursuit of
democracy.
Hong Kong is part of China, and foreign
governments should not interfere with its internal affairs, Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Hua ChunYing said
yesterday.
Source from :http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-29/hong-kong-protestors-block-roads-as-leader-sets-deadline.html