{"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=\"9ss7UBTgvu\"><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 loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cDemocracy promise forgotten in \u2018short-termism\u2019\u201d \u2014 Voice of Hong Kong\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2017\/04\/24\/democracy-promise-forgotten-in-short-termism\/embed\/#?secret=9ss7UBTgvu\" data-secret=\"9ss7UBTgvu\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" 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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17613,8,6855],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chris-yeung","category-column","category-sticky"],"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":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}