{"id":117409,"date":"2017-04-25T09:02:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=117409"},"modified":"2017-04-25T09:03:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:03:33","slug":"democracy-promise-forgotten-short-termism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/democracy-promise-forgotten-short-termism\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy promise forgotten in &#8216;short-termism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n<p>On December 29, 2007, disgraced chief executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen was at a peak of his political career after being re-elected for a full five-year term. On what should have been a historic day, China\u2019s top legislature gave the green light to electing the chief executive of Hong Kong by universal suffrage in 2017 and the Legislative Council thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>The National People\u2019s Congress Standing Committee passed unanimously a report submitted by Tsang on the city\u2019s constitutional development a fortnight ago. The South China Morning Post said in a report headlined \u201cTsang\u2019s 2020 Vision\u201d the decision \u201chas put an end to 20 years of contention over democratising Hong Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tsang praised the decision as a \u201cmost important step for Hong Kong\u2019s constitutional development\u201d and said a \u201cclear timetable\u201d had effectively been set for returning all lawmakers by universal suffrage in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>What a 10 years!<\/p>\n<p>Full article:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"NmjjQ2EC0a\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2017\/04\/24\/democracy-promise-forgotten-in-short-termism\/\">Democracy promise forgotten in &#8216;short-termism&#8217;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2017\/04\/24\/democracy-promise-forgotten-in-short-termism\/embed\/#?secret=NmjjQ2EC0a\" data-secret=\"NmjjQ2EC0a\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Democracy promise forgotten in &#8216;short-termism&#8217;&#8221; &#8212; Voice of Hong Kong\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 29, 2007, disgraced chief executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen was at a peak of his political career after being re-elected for a full five-year term. On what should have been a historic day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":117410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17613,8,6855],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PIC423Rally-777x437.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-uxH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":100207,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/tsang-happy-lose-bet-ce-race\/","url_meta":{"origin":117409,"position":0},"title":"Tsang happy to lose bet on CE race","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"September 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 By Chris Yeung \u2013 Contrary to the pan-democrats\u2019 pledge, outgoing Legislative Council President Tsang Yok-sing said he will put his money on a prediction that there will be a pan-democrat contesting the next chief executive election. 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