HK - Economic Data & News 03 (Aug 15 - Jan 17)

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Postby winston » Thu Nov 03, 2016 6:09 pm

Beijing Turns on Hong Kong Leader Association with faction hostile to Xi Jinping dooms Leung Chun-ying's re-election chances

By Larry Ong

Leung is widely considered to be part of Jiang’s faction through his association with Zeng Qinghong, Jiang’s right-hand-man and former Chinese vice chairman.


Source: Epoch Times

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Re: HK - Economic Data & News 03 (Aug 15 - Dec 16)

Postby behappyalways » Sat Nov 05, 2016 7:37 pm

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Re: HK - Economic Data & News 03 (Aug 15 - Dec 16)

Postby behappyalways » Sat Nov 05, 2016 8:44 pm

The localists’ curse

China wants to nip in the bud any talk of Hong Kong’s independence

A ruling by its legislature will inflame passions in the territory


SO ANGRY were senior members of the Chinese Communist Party about the China-baiting manner in which two legislators in Hong Kong took their oaths of office that “their lungs exploded”. So said a party-controlled newspaper in the territory in an editorial this week warning that the pair, and others like them who call for Hong Kong’s independence, would “pay the price”.

Hyperbole is common in the party’s rhetoric, but it is clear that the government in Beijing has lost patience with Hong Kong’s radicals. It appears ready to intervene to prevent the two from taking up their seats. Such a move is likely to fuel resentment in the territory of the party’s political control there.

As The Economist went to press, senior members of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s parliament, were believed to be meeting in Beijing. They were expected to discuss a response to the oath-taking on October 12th by Sixtus Leung and Yau Wai-ching, both from a party called Youngspiration.

Mr Leung and Ms Yau pronounced China in a derogatory way and displayed a banner saying “Hong Kong is not China”. Ms Yau mumbled her words to make them sound like “People’s re-fucking” of China.

To judge from Beijing-controlled newspapers in Hong Kong, the response will be clear: the two will not be given another chance to take their oaths, and will be disbarred from the Legislative Council, known as Legco. That would be a relief to some people in the territory.

Since the swearing-in, Legco has been paralysed by bickering and brawls among legislators over whether the two should be allowed to swear in again, and whether they should be admitted to the chamber. In the latest such outbreak, on November 2nd, six of Legco’s security guards were taken to hospital after mêlées erupted (Ms Yau, in blue dress, and Mr Leung, rear centre, are pictured during one of them).

But to many in the territory, intervention by the NPC would be a hugely unwelcome shock. Just as Chinese legislators were beginning their discussions in Beijing, Hong Kong’s High Court was launching proceedings in a case filed by the territory’s government that also aims to block the two from swearing in again.

The local government’s legal move had already riled pro-democracy politicians in the territory, who note that legislators are often given another chance to swear in (playing with the wording of oaths on the first attempt is something of a tradition among feistier lawmakers). But the NPC’s effort to pre-empt the court’s decision by issuing a ruling of its own would be widely seen as a blow to Hong Kong’s judicial independence.

Although many had feared the NPC would eventually step in, few had expected it to show its hand without waiting for the case to make its way to Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal. Just this week, Hong Kong’s secretary for justice, Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung, had implied the case could be handled well enough by Hong Kong’s courts.

He said Hong Kong’s judges would deal with it “in a fair, just and professional manner”. However, the chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, said there was a “possibility” that he might ask the NPC for help.

Few dispute that the national legislature has a right to make its own interpretations of the Basic Law, as Hong Kong’s constitution is known. Oath-taking by legislators is an issue covered by that document. But this would be the NPC’s first such pre-emptive move in a case only just getting under way in a Hong Kong court.

That it appears ready to do so is a sign of China’s fear of the rapid emergence of groups like Youngspiration. Their members, often called “localists”, not only resent the party’s political influence in Hong Kong, but also an influx of mainlanders into the territory.

Localists won about 20% of the vote in elections to Legco that were held in September, enabling six of them (including the controversial pair) to win seats. It is their first representation in the 70-member body.

By intervening, however, the central government would risk reigniting the passions that flared in 2014 when demonstrators paralysed business districts with sit-ins for several weeks. The “Umbrella Movement”, as it was called, grew out of fears that the Communist Party was trying to cripple Hong Kong’s democracy.

The protesters’ failure to win concessions gave birth to the localist cause. A hard line from the NPC on the oath-taking case would give their campaign yet more impetus.

Source: The Economist
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Re: HK - Economic Data & News 03 (Aug 15 - Dec 16)

Postby behappyalways » Mon Nov 07, 2016 8:44 pm

Hong Kong lawmakers barred by Beijing from office
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37893039


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Re: HK - Economic Data & News 03 (Aug 15 - Dec 16)

Postby behappyalways » Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:39 pm

China blocks Hong Kong lawmakers in a reminder of who is in charge
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Re: HK - Economic Data & News 03 (Aug 15 - Dec 16)

Postby behappyalways » Tue Nov 08, 2016 7:12 pm

中央粗暴推倒港司法制度 
法律界憤怒 今黑衣遊行
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Re: HK - Economic Data & News 03 (Aug 15 - Dec 16)

Postby behappyalways » Wed Nov 09, 2016 9:07 pm

法律界二千人為法治默哀
李柱銘:釋法五次如斬五刀
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Re: HK - Economic Data & News 03 (Aug 15 - Dec 16)

Postby behappyalways » Sat Nov 12, 2016 9:39 pm

China’s new Tibet

Hong Kong faces new political turmoil

Silencing separatists is not the answer


HONG KONG’S Legislative Council, or Legco, has descended into chaos over how members should take their oaths of office after elections in September. Pro-establishment lawmakers dominate the 70-member chamber, thanks to a voting system skewed towards those who support the government and the Communist Party in Beijing.

Despite that, voters elected half a dozen candidates who want Hong Kong to be more independent—some even favour outright separation from China. At their oath-taking two members of a new party, Youngspiration, pledged allegiance to “the Hong Kong nation”, used the imperial Japanese pronunciation of “China”, and displayed a banner declaring that “Hong Kong is not China”.

The theatrics by Sixtus Leung and Yau Wai-ching at times seemed puerile. On November 7th the central government made clear that it was in no mood for farce. Its rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), issued a ruling aimed at barring Mr Leung and Ms Yau from Legco (see article). Few doubt that the NPC will get its way. Other independence-leaning lawmakers may also be ejected.

The intervention has angered many in Hong Kong. Though the NPC oversees the territory’s constitution, its rulings were always intended as a last resort in a place that was promised “a high degree of autonomy” on its reversion from British rule to China in 1997.

In this instance, Hong Kong’s own judiciary had just begun hearing a case brought by the territory’s government aimed at disqualifying the two members. Never before have Hong Kong’s courts been pre-empted like this. The ruling undermines the judicial independence that makes the territory so successful as a global financial hub.

Worse, it betrays the NPC’s refusal to acknowledge how the Communist Party’s own miscalculations have created today’s dissent. In 2014 the NPC declared that Hong Kong would not get the full democracy that many thought they had been promised: only candidates approved by the Communist Party’s backers in Hong Kong could become chief executive.

Public anger erupted into weeks of protests that spawned a “localist” movement. Its members called for self-determination for Hong Kong. The party’s hard line fuelled support for them, especially after a Hong Kong bookseller dealing in gossipy tales about China’s leaders appeared to have been kidnapped by the party’s goons and taken to the mainland. Four of his colleagues were also snatched away, either while visiting the mainland or, in one case, from Thailand.

Hong Kong is still far freer and more open than anywhere on the mainland—home to a lively press, a mostly clean and efficient civil service and a political culture still largely unrestrained by fear. But the Basic Law only promises that Hong Kong will keep its capitalist way of life until 2047.

Many people worry that China will tighten its grip long before the reprieve runs out. Every sign that it is doing so plays into the localists’ hands. Hours before the NPC’s ruling, thousands took to the streets in anticipation of what it would say; some shouted “Hong Kong independence” and scuffled with riot police.

The best way to ease the desperation that feeds the separatists’ cause would be to give Hong Kong’s citizens what they want: full democracy. Alas, the Communist Party is as unlikely to agree to that in Hong Kong as it is in the rest of China (local elections under way on the mainland are of a kind that North Korea would admire—see article). The party is spooked by the thought of localists gaining power.

Once, Hong Kong was viewed by China’s rulers as their star exhibit for wooing Taiwan back into the fold. Now they are beginning to view the territory as yet another restive province with ungrateful subjects—a better-washed version of Tibet or Xinjiang.

China does not appear to be mulling the use of its troops to crush unrest—that would be calamitous for business and the much-vaunted policy of “one country, two systems”. But it is baring its teeth. It is not only Hong Kongers who should be concerned. So should all those who look to Hong Kong’s freedom and prosperity as a future path for China itself.

Source: The Economist
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Re: HK - Economic Data & News 03 (Aug 15 - Dec 16)

Postby behappyalways » Mon Nov 14, 2016 11:56 am

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Re: HK - Economic Data & News 03 (Aug 15 - Dec 16)

Postby behappyalways » Wed Nov 16, 2016 11:16 am

指兩人不承認一國重要性
宣誓覆核 官判政府勝訴 梁游出局
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