Video 2A June 1989
5:15
Lee Chuek Yan "Beijing states the student protesters are counterrevolutionary rioters supports by overseas powers"
Interviewer "do you think this could happen in Hong Kong"
Video 2A June 1989
5:15
Lee Chuek Yan "Beijing states the student protesters are counterrevolutionary rioters supports by overseas powers"
Interviewer "do you think this could happen in Hong Kong"
Also features a 25 years ago CY Leung -
another local program doing a show in English for the first time
Interesting comment on the dynamic between the democratic legislators and protesters. Explains why the democrats have had difficulty leveraging the movement.
Hong Kong's Students Run Out Far Ahead of Its Democracy Old Guard - The Epoch Times
A good analysis of the way protesters lead themselves and how bad policing has sustained the movement.
Letter from Mong Kok
Calls from business sector grow for Hong Kong's Occupy protests to end
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as Calls grow for Occupy to end as business suffers
Peter So, Raquel Carvalho, Alan Yu and Ernest Kao
With a highway and other roads still blocked, the five-week-old Occupy movement is harming the city's economic prospects, small and big businesses say...
My brief analysis of SCMP's news reporting:
It took four SCMP reporters to put this together, with no one taking responsibility for the final edit.
The complainants representing Hong Kong's business sector are:
- Three merchants in the actual protest areas.
- A group representing Pakistani Chamber of Commerce, with Pakistan being both politically and financially deeply dependant on pleasing the PRC government.
- HSBC, likewise an entity politically and financially deeply dependant on pleasing the PRC government
All of the above want the protests to end, which happens to be what everyone in HK wants as well. The root issue whether HK should share international values and standards of other developed societies or move towards PRC's insular and authoritarian model is never approached, but the article implies that it is the protesters (the issue of democracy is never mentioned) are the unreasonable party solely responsible for any business difficulties for the business sector.
Oh, okay. I see an argument that wins the day and proves that the last-resort protests to protect Hong Kong public's civil rights are absolutely pointless.G.H. Sagar, president of the Jammu Kashmir Association, said that protesters should trust the chief executive and retreat. "C.Y. Leung is a very nice man," Sagar said. "He can solve your problems."
Unfortunately these kinds of fair and balanced reports tend to have a creeping compounding effect actually affecting people's sentiments over time. "If all these people quoted in the press think that way, then..."
Oops - just saw the above was posted elsewhere earlier - could the admins please arrange to remove (lost the edit function in the process of trying to fix) - my apologies.
Last edited by threesummers; 01-11-2014 at 11:52 PM.