Sep 18, 2012 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted; Sept. 18, 2012 Picking up where this story left off last week (Sept. 13 post), two reasons stand out at first glance for pan-democrats’ failure to do better in the September 9 Legislative Council (Legco) election. One is the compound effects of their...
Sep 13, 2012 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: Sept. 13, 2012 Whenever pro-democracy voters are especially exercised over some issue, the opposition mobilizes to strengthen its lines of defense and block their advance. That provocative interaction between pan-democrats and pro-Beijing forces has...
Sep 7, 2012 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: Sept. 7, 2012 Electioneering is usually fun to watch even when tactics and rhetoric are something less than edifying and Hong Kong is no exception on all counts. Public attention is naturally focused on the 35 directly-elected Geographic Constituency...
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