Posted on 12/21/2004 7:45:56 PM PST by bruinbirdman
"President Hu Jintao of China publicly urged Hong Kong's leader on Monday to improve his management of the semiautonomous Chinese territory, a comment widely seen as a rebuke," the New York Times reports.
Hu said that "he believed that Hong Kong was 'moving in the right direction.' But he went on to warn Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's chief executive, that he should 'sum up experiences, identify shortcomings, sharpen administrative abilities and continue to raise the quality of governing.'"
In "What Beijing needs to learn from Hong Kong," Cato China expert James Dorn writes: "Hong Kong's demand for limiting the reach of the Chinese government...is a sign that Hong Kong's quest for political freedom may spread to the mainland. Although China's march towards market liberalism has been slow, it has been steady. Mindsets are changing as more people become exposed to western culture and commerce. The private sector is gaining ground and with it the demand for political reform and less state intervention."
If the old-line Chi-Coms were smart, they would have kept "hands off" of Hong-Kong and let the business men run the country and pass along the profits...but the pinkos are so absolute control-mad, they continue to screw up a free lunch -- HK is a classic example.
Typical Marxist subhuman swine. They're the very definition of greed and fanaticism.
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