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sochi2014

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More than half of HK population are slaves earning $1,800 per month!!! Shocking!!!!



Hong Kong Leader Reaffirms Tough Stance on Elections and Economic Discontent







By KEITH BRADSHER and CHRIS BUCKLEY

October 20, 2014


HONG KONG — The Beijing-appointed leader of Hong Kong, Leung Chun-ying, said Monday evening that allowing his successors to be chosen in open elections based on who won the greatest number of votes was unacceptable in part because it risked giving poorer residents a dominant voice in politics.

Mr. Leung gave the warning in a broad-ranging defense of his government’s handling of pro-democracy protests that have wracked the city for more than three weeks. He acknowledged that many protesters were angered by the city’s lack of social mobility and affordable housing but argued that containing populist pressures was an important reason for resisting protesters’ demands.

Instead, he offered a firm defense of Beijing’s position that candidates to succeed him must be screened by a “broadly representative” nominating committee, which would insulate Hong Kong’s next chief executive from popular pressure to create a welfare state and allow the government to implement more business-friendly policies to address economic inequality.

Mr. Leung’s blunt remarks — which seemed to reflect a commonly held view among the Hong Kong elite that the general public cannot be trusted to govern the city well — appeared likely to draw fresh criticism from the democratic opposition and to inflame the street struggle over Hong Kong’s political future, which has been has been fueled in part by economic discontent, especially among younger residents.





Leung Chun-ying, the chief executive of Hong Kong, during a news conference last week.

Philippe Lopez / Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

He spoke on the eve of talks, scheduled to be televised, between his government and student leaders, who have portrayed him as defending a political system stacked against ordinary citizens.

Mr. Leung said that if “you look at the meaning of the words ‘broadly representative,’ it’s not numeric representation.”

“You have to take care of all the sectors in Hong Kong as much as you can,” he said, “and if it’s entirely a numbers game and numeric representation, then obviously you would be talking to half of the people in Hong Kong who earn less than $1,800 a month.”

“Then you would end up with that kind of politics and policies,” he continued
 

mojito

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The fact that median income is well over 4000 dollars and there are no protests in the streets proves that the PAP has done a marvelous job governing the city.
 

frenchbriefs

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Why do all Asian politics sound the same lol....elitist super rich let's not bow to the majority poor people populist pressures we are meritocratic fairly elected people with no nepotism but let's not allow open and free elections in case poor people get to vote and we don't like poor people.
 
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