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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Video
A video clip along with a song created by the pro-democracy camp to express their desire of universal suffrage:
The video is created by the pro-democracy camp. It is music video with clips of one of the events that they hosted to support 2012 universal suffrage. The main theme of the song is "We are ready for it!". The event shown in the clip had broken the world record. The video is bias - it gives us a view of the event from the pro-democracy's point of view, but was lack of public views and government comments.
The video is created by the pro-democracy camp. It is music video with clips of one of the events that they hosted to support 2012 universal suffrage. The main theme of the song is "We are ready for it!". The event shown in the clip had broken the world record. The video is bias - it gives us a view of the event from the pro-democracy's point of view, but was lack of public views and government comments.
Free Post 1
I had not been much aware of the election system in Hong Kong until the discuss about universal suffrage started. I have been thinking about the topic recently, and I think it is fair to say that universal suffrage is what most of us desired. The government are set up to maintain a higher living standard of the public. It is set up for the sake of the public. Therefore being a part of public we should have the rights to choose who to lead our government, to lead our society and to lead us. I am not familiar to the political system, but I surely think that HK should have universal suffrage. Although the functional constituency may make better decision for the groups they represents, functional constituency does not represent the whole society. They may consider their own wellness over the actual needs of the society. Therefore I believe universal suffrage will help us express our desires to the government and it will definitely represent our own needs.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Response Piece
Ming Pao Daily: 2008 - 01 -06
http://specials.mingpao.com/cfm/News.cfm?SpecialsID=137&Page=1&News=7deecba3b205002bdffc2029a617002bf7cc1b3f3f46003bf7d50a1f08660037&ChineseName=%B1M%AEa%B5%FB%BD%D7
Written by Dr. Kenneth Chan Ka Lok from Department of Government and International Studies - Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University
Dr. Kenneth Chan holds a strong belief in the need of universal suffrage in Hong Kong, but he sees problems that exist in the central government of China. Universal suffrage means that everyone is equal and has the same right. However, the central government of China is defending for the functional constituency, a professional or special interest group involved in the electoral process, which makes its promise of universal suffrage unreliable. The truth is that there is too much ambiguity that it is not fair to claim success in striving for universal suffrage in 2017. Dr. Chan also argues that the privileged class is those who are “blocking the way into democracy.” Dr. Chan criticized on the argument that the public is slowing down the negotiation between the pro-democracy camp and the government by demonstration.
I totally agree with Chan’s opinion. There are many factors that can affect the decision in whether universal suffrage can be executed in Hong Kong in 2017. In addition, keeping the functional constituency means giving overriding power to certain people. This will go against the basic concept of universal suffrage. Those privileged class are more aware of their own goodness than the commonweal. Chan mentioned that during the demonstration on 13/1/2008, many elders had participated. This should act as a sign that we should fight for universal suffrage for the elders in my society. I think Chan has a point there. The pro-democracy camp has been claiming to fight for our future, but we should also take care of the needs of those who spent their life to contribute in the development of our society. Society is asking for democracy, and we should fight for it.
http://specials.mingpao.com/cfm/News.cfm?SpecialsID=137&Page=1&News=7deecba3b205002bdffc2029a617002bf7cc1b3f3f46003bf7d50a1f08660037&ChineseName=%B1M%AEa%B5%FB%BD%D7
Written by Dr. Kenneth Chan Ka Lok from Department of Government and International Studies - Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University
Dr. Kenneth Chan holds a strong belief in the need of universal suffrage in Hong Kong, but he sees problems that exist in the central government of China. Universal suffrage means that everyone is equal and has the same right. However, the central government of China is defending for the functional constituency, a professional or special interest group involved in the electoral process, which makes its promise of universal suffrage unreliable. The truth is that there is too much ambiguity that it is not fair to claim success in striving for universal suffrage in 2017. Dr. Chan also argues that the privileged class is those who are “blocking the way into democracy.” Dr. Chan criticized on the argument that the public is slowing down the negotiation between the pro-democracy camp and the government by demonstration.
I totally agree with Chan’s opinion. There are many factors that can affect the decision in whether universal suffrage can be executed in Hong Kong in 2017. In addition, keeping the functional constituency means giving overriding power to certain people. This will go against the basic concept of universal suffrage. Those privileged class are more aware of their own goodness than the commonweal. Chan mentioned that during the demonstration on 13/1/2008, many elders had participated. This should act as a sign that we should fight for universal suffrage for the elders in my society. I think Chan has a point there. The pro-democracy camp has been claiming to fight for our future, but we should also take care of the needs of those who spent their life to contribute in the development of our society. Society is asking for democracy, and we should fight for it.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Democracy in Hong Kong
I have heard news about people striving for democracy in Hong Kong during my stay during winter break. I think it will be a great topic and I should bring it to our class' attention. I have not been catching up to news in Hong Kong lately, so this will also be an opportunity for me to get up-dated. Moreover, since I will be turning 18 next year, when I will be given the authority to vote, this is something that I should be concerned about. I hope that through this exercise I could develop a habit of keeping up with the news and that I could also learn and understand more about my hometown. At first I was assuming that it would be a bit difficult to find information covered by the North America. However, I found quite a bit of information, probably due to the fact that Hong Kong is an international city and this is a big issue in Hong Kong. The largest difference between the North America coverage and media from my home is that media from home can provide more opinions from public, worthies, and even government. Moreover, since it is such a big issue, the coverage in Hong Kong is so fast that there is always news about it almost every day. In the coming months, I will be reading news about the events (e.g. demurral) and present both my own ideas and the latest information on my blog.
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