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Hong Kong Needs Accountability Not Consensus

Hong Kong Needs Accountability Not Consensus

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Philip Bowring
Jun 11, 2007
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Wu Bangguo, head of the National People’s Congress, has given the game away. The seemingly interminable “consultations” that the Hong Kong government purports to be having with the people on constitutional progress and the road map to universal suffrage are a charade. Wu was impolitic enough last week to tell Hong Kong that Beijing alone decides the deg…

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