The Liberal Party usually votes for CCP candidates during the Chief Executive elections and usually with the other pro-Beijing parties in the HK assembly. It is pro-CCP. Its members just have brains and don't always follow instructions from Beijing.
Both founder Allen Lee and former Chairman James Tien were dissociated by the Beijing government. Liberal party is pro-Business and conservative that only concern about its interests and is run by a bunches of opportunists. In 2012 HK Chief Executive election, Liberal party supported Henry Tang. In 2017 HK Chief Executive election, the Liberals were split between Carrie Lam and John Tsang. Liberals also opposed minimum wage, maternity leave etc. All issues that HK government wanted to pass.
Article 23 is a principle, not a law. If it was a law the CCP wouldn't have had any reason to introduce the new security legislation.
What you wrote have nothing to do with the fact that Martin Lee has now openly supported the Article 23 in 2003 form and wished it has been passed.
What does that have to do with anything? I can remember Chinese nationalists regularly calling the KMT their best friends (at least whenever Taiwan comes up) and stuff like "when China is unified the KMT can come to the mainland to be the Opposition". But now being the son of someone in the KMT puts you under suspicion? Right.
You said that those oppositions are not even anti-CCP. KMT members and associates are anti-CCP. Do I need to quote you exact words for you? Or you don't even have the gut to admit a simple fact that many oppositions are anti-CCP. Many oppositions probably have no problem to admit themselves that they are anti-CCP.
HK was supposed to be an independent politcal entity - at least in the context of autonomy for non-international issues.
That's completely false. At the very beginning, HK wasn't an independent political entity. There were no negotiation between Hong Kong and China. There is only a negotiation between China and British on the issue of handover. Everything in HK including the mini-law is adopted and granted by the National People's Congress. Stop lying.
This sounds an awful lot like before the handover. If you'd bothered to read my post, you'll have noticed the bit where the Democratic Party negotiated in good faith with the CCP after 1997.
You still are dodging the fact that the leader of DP beg the last governor to use
his authoritarian power to make laws. It seems obvious that Martin Lee has no regard and doesn't give much of thought about Liberty, Freedom, rule of laws, and universal suffrage.
Resigned as a legislator in 2004. He didn't make the Democratic Party vote for the reform package, even if he supported it.
Stop lying. As one of the founders of DP, Szeto Wah is very influential. Don't try to distort facts by using irrelevant stuffs.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party leaders began to negotiate with the Beijing authorities and a revised proposal suggested by Szeto Wah was accepted by Beijing.
Szeto Wah attended the party meeting after chemotherapy raised support of the revised proposal, stating that it was better to have the increase of five directly elected seats, five functional constituency seats but almost directly elected and the abolition of the appointed District Council seats than nothing.
After the Democratic Party voted for the revised package, the Democratic Party and Szeto Wah received harsh criticisms from its former allies and supporters, condemning them for betraying democracy and the Hong Kong people. "Longhair"
in a protest in front of the PTU headquarters said Szeto Wah had his cancer got into his brain.
In the following
, Szeto on his wheelchair also received criticisms from his supporters, saying that the "Democratic Party sold out Hong Kong people." In response, Szeto argued, "Sold out? How much for selling out? ... Are you pig or dog? Can you be sold out?"
Nice strawman. I didn't claim no foreign countries had taken an interest in Hong Kong. The issue is the disparity in power between the CCP and the common people in HK.
The CCP has always had all the legal and security power in Hong Kong, either directly or indirectly. They and their cronies in the city have banned non-violent protests against the Chinese anthem, banned localist parties and politicians, harrassed other pan-democratic figures, kidnapped booksellers, banned protests in the city, tried indoctrinating children with pro-CCP propaganda and protected the HK police over complaints of violence. Now they've just decided to make it illegal to say mean things about the CCP and its allies in HK.
The little support a number of protesters have received is a drop in the ocean in comparison.
Also, before you try to claim that most HK people support the CCP, I draw your attention to the fact that the pro-Beijing parties have never held a majority of seats in the the HK assembly from the geographic constituences. Not once.
Sometimes I think that's the real reason the CCP won't allow proper electoral reform in Hong Kong, because it's mad a majority of HKers refuse to vote for its proxies.
You make it sounds like Color Revolution is a none issue. What are you smoking? Are you trying to say that China and Hong Kong should be equal.
Another childish ramblings. How about those 10 years old kids that were brainwashed to be sent in the front line of riots. How about using mentally retarded people and recruiting them and brainwahed them to use them in the front of riots. How about beating Mainland Chinese half to death just because they speak Mandarin. How are setting a man on fire just because he spoke out against violent. How about harassing HK citizens at their home, jobs, apartments, friends, family. Burning stores that don't support the rioters. How about teachers that harass little kids in kindergarten just because their dads are a cop. How about beating up a kids in school and asking older kids to beat up a kid just because his/her dad is a cop. Those rioters and their supporters that refuse to admit crimes and atrocities that they have done are disgusting.
Oh please, I have said many times that the pro-Beijing got 45% of the votes at their best performance. Another immature rambling. CCP obviously knew the simple and obvious fact that many Hong Kongers are descendants of anti-ccp who left China and all these years of colonial rules of course would produce many pro-West cronies.
