Sunday, August 31, 2014

Two Systems a Sham

Reuters reports for Yahoo News that pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong have demonstrated, and plan to do so again, against a ruling by the National Peoples Congress in Beijing. The ruling limits candidates for the city's chief executive to a group of two or three picked by a nominating committee stacked with "Beijing loyalists."

It has been suggested a Taiwan reunification with China follow the Hong Kong "one country, two systems" model. You can be certain that these protests are being closely watched in Taiwan, where people have been quite skeptical of the "two systems" claim.