By Jerome A. Cohen
Here is a very interesting and hopeful article on the local situation in North Point, Hong Kong’s New Political Stars Wallop Beijing’s Loyal Foot Soldiers. North Point has been a Fujian-Hokkien place for over fifty years but even in the early ‘60s not all residents reflected pro-CCP sentiments. Many had fled China out of hunger and fear after the failure and tragedy of the Great Leap Forward, especially when the Hong Kong Government opened the border for about six weeks in the spring of 1962.
I hope the District Council elections signal a new way for resolving the Hong Kong crisis, one that demonstrates the effectiveness of democratic political processes. But if a continuing tin ear from an obdurate Hong Kong Government and Beijing squelches it, this will further discredit before the world what they have done.