How does Hong Kong select its government? 

Yup brilliant analogy! 2.1 m votes cast for London major by the general public v 800 for HK CE by a pro Beijing committee of elites. So similar it's uncanny!!

Was the Mayor picked by the PM ?

Ahhh, the answer to absolutely everything if you're a china ultranationalist shill - the whattaboutism/ strawman. Congrats Wumao, your 50 cents is in the post! - now to whom do I make the cheque out to?

@@willsmith39 Maybe he's a Chinese living in Singapore or Malaysia or Hongkong commenting in favor of CCP

@@youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan6687 or he just loves watching Foxy News

@@willsmith39 I am not a whataboutism, nor a shell for the Chinese Government. I am simply stating a fact and asking a question for people like you to think on it. A question for you, have you been in Hong Kong and mainland China before?

@@leibikov5202 I live in Hong Kong. I have done for 31 years so it's my home. I speak and write Chinese well, although only my Cantonese is decent, my Mandarin is poor to be honest. I've travelled extensively in China since I came to Hong Kong in 1989 . Been to many provinces, not just the obvious places/ cities. I hope that answers your question. Oh and I don't need to "think on it " re. HK not being a democracy pre 1997. I was aware of it already oddly enough 🙄 Here's something I'd ask 'people like you' to think on ( I'm just mirroring the phrase you used to me) who trot this out routinely as a deflection/ straw man whenever the topic of Hong Kong's rapidly declining freedoms comes up. ( and it's alarmingly rapid now - the Hugh Chiverton thing has genuinely shocked me and I'm pretty much unshockable now after the past 18 months) And it's this. Hong Kong didn't have democracy pre 1997 that's absolutely true. And it ought to have had - that's also true in my view certainly. But it's not just as simple as that, as much as the whattaboutism people try to make it so. Because while HK wasn't democratic, not was it autocratic. It certainly didn't remotely resemble the situation over the border. HK didn't have democracy, but it certainly has 'democratic norms'. So for example it had a free and open press with a diversity of opinion, not state media. It encouraged free speech, not arresting people with dissenting voices for the crime of "picking quarrells and provoking trouble"🙄🙄 Freedom of assembly and religion was allowed, even the more weird/culty ones like Falun Gong. ( full disclosure - ALL religions are weird/ culty to me 😄 - but I respect others' rights to believe whatever they choose) We had rule of law - not to be confused with rule by law as we increasingly 'enjoy' now 🙄 And if you broke the law, or were accused of doing so, then we had an open and transparent judiciary to deal with it, with numerous checks and balances in place as safeguards. It was based on the UK's common law system with an adversarial trail process with the presumption of innocence at its core. Not a 'justice' system with a 99.7 percent convinction rate because if the government says you did it - then you did it😬 Anyway, that's how it was and that's what made HK so attractive as an Asian hub to many multinationals and global finance and law firms. That was our ' USP' if you like. One that's going down the toilet now at a frankly alarming rate of knots.

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It's very rare for a state legislature to change which electors are sent. Furthermore, each state legislature is elected democratically.

Where do you see “democracy” anywhere here? Only mentioned by you

The CPC has already said that the agreement is no longer valid.

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@@andrewbirch Yws

They had somewhat of a chance, and they demonstrated it to be a terrible idea.

What,you know that there are literally company voting right,those election are not open to the worker,just top executive.

@@aothanhhuy2814 Most executives are highly qualified professional workers, so they are allocated a subsector.

@@dongiovanni8899 even so,they cannot properly represent the will of the worker with so less elector,a energy scientist that earn 100000$ per year have little interest in common with a energy sector worker that earned 50000$ a year

@@aothanhhuy2814 The different voting population in each sectors can be reflected through proportional representation

@@dongiovanni8899 yes,but that is not what happen here,there are less than 10000 voter in this election,and many seat went uncontested,just 10000 people cannot represent the entire population,no matter how much you try.And that is not mentioning the many seat that doesnt NEED a election,they are nearly hand picked by the goverment,and while some are understandable,Some other are just absurd,for example,there are 40(out of 90)seat in the legislature that are elected by the election committie,but all those people that got in those seat (they do not need to be a member of the committie) also serve ex offico in the commttie,so they whoever side that earn a majority can abuse this system to give their side even more power,and since the term of the committie are different than the legislature,in a close election,it could potentally tip the balance of power.

The Chief Executive of Hong Kong has the exact same powers as the Governor during British rule. At least under British rule there was no ''National Security Law'' and banning of parties from elections.

Enjoy your freedom ! Hahahahaaa !

@@colonelarmfeldt8572 politicians of Hongkong were all of British bloodline before the turnover

Sorry, this game is no longer for the moguls but for those political flunkeys.

Applies to your Capitalist controlled world, not to Socialist countries, especially China.

The difference. China promised a democracy for 50 years

Yeah dissent of any kind is "cancer". And that's not even your own line Wumao - we all remember who tweeted that ( somewhat hypocritically via VPN as twitter is of course banned on the mainland) Can't you at least try to be a bit orgininal in your shilling and not plagiarize the hard work of other 50 centers?

@Simon Whittaker Yeah 2m people voting for London major is absolutely analagous to 800 elite rubber stampers endorcing whomever Beijing picks as Hong Kong's CE 🙄🙄 You nailed it! Plus Sadiq Khan can absolutely arrest you for insulting the national anthem and imprison you for flag desecration. Ans he's known for jailing non organisers of vigils that didn't happen because they might have happened and if they had then they might also have been violent 🙄🙄 Hong Kong's now a bit like that old Tom Cruise movie where the authorities stop the crimes before they happen. The NSL police are like precogs. 😄

@@willsmith39 how much are you paid per post? it's kinda obvious, a lot of copy-paste too. i know people who could use an unskilled job like yours.

The British actually wanted to introduce voting and self-governance to Hong Kong in the 1950's, just like they did with Singapore and Malaysia. China's (Mao's) response to this proposal was threats of war -- China would "not hesitate to take positive action to have Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories liberated" if self-governance was allowed in Hong Kong.

The CCP actually.

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Nice seeing the wumao out today. When you don’t give the opposition the chance to get elected that’s not a democracy.

Slaves didn't get the vote.

No it isn't 🤣 Ancient Greek democracy was very complicated but it was 1 person 1 vote ,it isn't a modern invention and it is the best system

better then USA election system.

@@ngheanchoong normal people don’t compare faeces.

So what, the world knows it as "Hongkong, China", not "Hongkong, UK", or "Hongkong, US".

based

HK is already scorched earth.

Well, Iraq would have been fine without Western intervention!