The election is following attempts by the Chinese to hold indoctrination classes in the schools (now abandoned) and you would have thought democrats would have done better.
In the run-up to the handover in 1997 soundings were taken about democracy and about going it alone (it is only the New Territories which were on lease from China: Hong Kong itself was British until we handed it over). But hardly anyone was interested. The majority didn't much like democracy, thinking it a distraction from making money. It seems they're still not enthusiastic.
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DECADES ago, I managed a CA State Assembly campaign for a retired US Air Force retired lieutenant colonel, whose 'day job' was as a tenured management department chair @ the local California State University in Bakersfield, California.
** His repatriated Mainland Chinese wife was also a tenured faculty member in management @ the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
** HAVING given an entrenched Republican the "scare of his political life" in a highly GOP slanted district, John and his wife sold their local home on a 'quick sale' & loss, then moved to The [former] British Crown Colony of Hong Kong as private university professors in their fields - " ... to watch the Hong Kong economy take over mainland China"!.
** SO YOUR UPDATE, TIM - is both timely and welcomed! THANK YOU! -30-
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