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China President Xi Jinping Faces Stark Choices Over Hong Kong Protests
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Areddy describes the choices facing China's president Xi Jinping as he faces protests in Hong Kong demanding the resignation of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying. Protestors are also calling for canceling of a plan to limit nominations for chief executive to a committee loyal to Beijing. Xi Jinping has experience with Hong Kong affairs as he held the portfolio for Hong Kong affairs as part of the leadership when he was vice president. There are precedents where Beijng has changed course, as it sees it important to put memories of Tiananmen protest suppression behind. In 2003 six years after Britain handed Hong Kong to China -under an agreement for "one country, two systems," that granted separate status and system of government to Hong Kong- an anti-subversion law was pulled back. And the unpopular Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, a shipping magnate, resigned after 18 months. Beijing has to balance its concern for the "contagion effect" of protests on other parts of China, with the need to maintain the right climate for business and investment in Hong Kong and other financial centres. With slowing growth and limits to overexpanding credit, a crackdown in Hong Kong would further exacerbate problems with the international community, and create tensions in Taiwan about future reintegration with China. China warned foreigners not to interfere, and the American Consulate in Hong Kong stated it "strongly supports Hong Kong's well-established traditions and Basic Law protections of internationally recognized fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom of expression and freedom of the press." The British government also pointed to Hong Kong's "fundamental rights and freedoms, including the right to demonstrate," which were in the spirit of the 1997 transfer agreement.
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Hong Kong's new Chief Executive, Mr Leung, was elected by some 1200 business and political leaders. China has said Hong Kong will have universal suffrage and direct elections starting in 2017. This makes it likely Leung will have to govern with a view to winning public support. Leung plans pro-growth policies and says the growth rate of about 4% lags too far behind the over 6% in Singapore, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal in 2012. In August 2014 Leung's outspoken support for the Chinese government's decision to go back on the spirit of the Basic Law -and promises made for no prescreening of candidates in 2017 "one man, one vote" elections- made him hugely unpopular. Protestors demanded his resignation in September 2014.
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