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From: ggersh10/21/2014 9:51:59 AM
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Hong Kong Chief: Can't Have Democracy Or The Poor Will Have A SaySubmitted by Tyler Durden on 10/21/2014 - 09:43 Clearly, Leung Chung-Ying, Hong Kong's embattled leader, did not get the Jean-Claude Juncker memo that "when things are bad, you have to lie." As The NY Times reports, Leung - rather stunningly - said overnight that it was unacceptable to allow his successors to be chosen in open elections, in part because doing so would risk giving poorer residents a dominant voice in politics. Instead, rather unsurprisingly, he backed Beijing's position that all candidates to succeed him as chief executive, the top post in the city, must be screened by a "broadly representative" nominating committee appointed by Beijing, and offered several thinly veiled warnings on Monday that it was risky for the protesters to try the patience of the national authorities.

And then you have this...

huffingtonpost.com

Hong Kong's Leader Signals A Possible Concession To Pro-Democracy Protesters
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