Chow Hang-tung said Friday that the HK Alliance’s demand for an end to one-party rule was…
…a call for democratization, not for an end to the Communist Party’s leadership in China.
…The prosecution has focused on “ending one-party rule,” one of the alliance’s core demands, by arguing the alliance’s call meant ending the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership, which was against the constitution. There was no legal means to achieve that, it said.
Chow, a barrister who is defending herself, countered the prosecution claim Friday while appealing to the court to admit an expert’s evidence, standing outside the courtroom dock while presenting her argument.
The judges are expected to rule Monday whether to admit the report from a Taiwan-based scholar addressing a definition of democracy and whether democratization must be pursued through unlawful means.
What did the HK Alliance ever do – beyond uttering words – to end one-party rule? And what does any of this have to do with ‘national security’?
The Transport Secretary wants more done to attract ‘southbound cars’…
“Among Guangdong vehicles coming to Hong Kong over the past month, we noticed that half of them stayed for one night or two, meaning the visitors spent three days in the city. The rest were day trippers but they would also consume in Hong Kong,” she said.
“This is exactly the scheme’s selling point that we want to highlight. Drivers will find it more convenient to go shopping, make purchases, attend exhibitions, make business trips and visit relatives with their cars. We hope shopping malls, hotels and parking facilities can offer discount packages to attract these drivers to shop and spend money in Hong Kong.”
All but a tiny number of Mainland visitors will ever come to Hong Kong by air, rail, bus or ferry, and use public transport while here. The ones coming by car make no meaningful difference to tourism revenues – they just add to traffic congestion. So what really is the point of this ‘southbound’ thing? (I would guess optics, to illustrate ‘integration’?)
To make everyone in Hong Kong feel warmer – weather gauge at a cousin’s home in West Virginia…
That’s 2 degrees Fahrenheit, vs 62 in Hong Kong this morning (minus 17 vs positive 19 Centigrade). Plus they were expecting a foot of snow..