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...goal as an international financial center, it highlights our importance, our uniqueness, in the nation. [International] business must be conducted in a place that has all the financial hardware and software, and the legal system, and the freedoms that those require. Those assets can only be found in Hong Kong...
...political opposition in Hong Kong, the biggest issue is universal suffrage, whereby the Chief Executive and all of the Legislative Council are elected by popular vote. Yet Hong Kong's political system was never meant to be a carbon copy of any sovereign democracy. Unlike other colonies, Hong Kong did not become independent. It became part of a nation-China-and was given not full but a "high degree" of autonomy, under the principle of "one country, two systems." The level of this autonomy is set out in the Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitution under China...
...Under the Basic Law, the central government in Beijing has the power to appoint as well as remove Hong Kong's Chief Executive. Furthermore, the Chief Executive has a duty under the Basic Law to be accountable not only to Hong Kong but to the central government. Democracy, therefore, is not for Hong Kong alone to determine...
...This two-part process-election by Hong Kong and appointment by Beijing, and the dual accountability to both Hong Kong and Beijing-is unique. It's also a constitutional reality. Universal suffrage without regard to this reality will risk serious confrontation between the Hong Kong electorate and China. We need to assure all parties that, when universal suffrage is introduced, Beijing will retain its power to appoint the Chief Executive. Both Hong Kong and Beijing will have to accept that the elected candidate is accountable also to the other side...
...case for expeditious introduction of universal suffrage has been built on the aspirations of the Hong Kong people. Yet survey after survey has shown that compared to issues such as housing, the environment, employment and education, universal suffrage rarely makes it into the top five of the public's priorities...