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Tue 21 Oct, 2014 11:23 am
Quote:Hong Kong officials hold first talks with students
(BBC News, October 21, 2014)
Hong Kong officials have ended their first round of talks with students, with the government's chief negotiator saying she hoped for further meetings with protest leaders.
Students at the talks reiterated their demand for an unrestricted choice of candidates in the election for the territory's chief executive in 2017.
But both Hong Kong and Beijing officials have said this is impossible.
Protests have blocked key parts of the city, although numbers have fallen.
The BBC's Juliana Liu in Hong Kong says that although demonstrators know the chances of getting what they want are almost zero, they are staying on the streets to show authorities that the struggle for democratic reform is a long-term fight.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29700156
News report on the first government meeting with protestors:
I find it bizarre to the point of unbelievable that after watching how China has dealt with Tibet and the other non Han areas that they are assimilating that things would go any differently for the British cultured people of Hong Kong. London and the people of this city had to know this was coming. The people of Taiwan should know that this is their future two, there is no way America could prevent it even if we wanted to do so.
The irony is that here in the US only one third of the population voted this November, showing that "democracy" is going down together with the economy.
We must face that the original intent when democracy was idealized, carried honesty and care for everybody's benefit from the politicians side. They were the "servants" of the People.
Today, politicians had acquire so many privileges and so much power that they are the new "feudalists" of the past, with the only difference that now they are elected by the People.
There is no democratic country in the world without a corrupt government, the politicians have transformed themselves into a complete herd of bribes.
No wonder why people, who read about their corruption, are just staying at home instead of going out and vote.
The democratic system is falling, it was an obvious decay.
Can you ask an atheist to pray God for a miracle? Well, religion is not for everybody. The same happens with the political system of each country.
In China, the young adults are the easiest to be manipulated, and they can't see that their current system is the best for them, as Saddam Hussein was the best for Iraq years ago. Today, Iraq is not the powerful nation of the past, and guerrillas are taking control of many areas of this country. Iraq is now a democratic country but is a mess, a complete mess, and regardless of any effort, there won't be any fix for them. Only another dictator in Iraq will control that country as it was before, and can make it as a great country feared by their neighbors, and will find peace inside its borders.
A democratic change in China at this moment of uprising in economical power will delay or stop its development. Unfortunately for China, and fortunately for the West, the Chinese young adults are easy prey to be brainwashed and keep up with their democratic ideologies.
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