World News Insights
1-3 Minute Gist
Search, personalize, or simply browse. Follow the world around you from gist and context to insights.
Who we are | Our Credo | Ways of using Lyrarc | FAQ | Send Feedback | First Letter From the Editor
Sign up. It's free and easy to use
Create an account
to personalize your feed of articles and topics.
All Topics Article
Complicated Hong Kong Election Reform Plan Doesn’t Add Up, Activists Say
Keywords:
Tags: China,
A daily account of the 2014 Hong Kong democracy protests
10/01/2014
Grouped Articles
Hong Kong Government Seeks to Wait Out Protesters
Wall Street Journal 10/01/2014
Hong Kong Protestors Inspired by Gandhi
Wall Street Journal 10/01/2014
Joshua Wong: The 17-Year-Old Public Face of Hong Kong's Protests
Wall Street Journal 10/01/2014
Squeezed by Protesters and Beijing, Leader Tries to Save His Job
New York Times 10/01/2014
Hong Kong Leader Opens Talks With Protesters
Wall Street Journal 10/02/2014
Hong Kong’s Billionaire Democrat
Wall Street Journal 10/05/2014
Carrie Lam, Chief Secretary, during the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests in 2014- a once popular civil servant in the role of negotiating for Beijing
10/04/2014
Grouped Articles
The ‘Good Fighter’ Face of Hong Kong Government
Wall Street Journal 10/04/2014
Hong Kong’s Billionaire Democrat
Wall Street Journal 10/05/2014
Hong Kong Protesters, Government Schedule Talks
Wall Street Journal 10/07/2014
Hong Kong Officials and Protesters Agree to Talk
New York Times 10/07/2014
China, U.S. Standoff Deepens Over Hong Kong Protests
Wall Street Journal 10/11/2014
Hong Kong’s Top Government Officials Leaving Town
Wall Street Journal 10/11/2014
How Hong Kong's Chief Executive is chosen under the Basic Law drafted in 1990 and implemented with the 1997 transfer from Britain
09/29/2014
Forsythe provides details about how the Chief Executive is chosen from a group of1200 individuals mostly pro-business and loyal to Beijing. In 2017 the Chinese People's Congress promised to provide an election based on "one man, one vote." It is who can stand in the election that is the point of contention between pro-democracy protestors including university students, and the government in Beijing. Beijing wants to limit the candidates to people it approves, and protestors want to open up the process.
Grouped Articles
Protests in Hong Kong Have Roots in China’s ‘Two Systems’
New York Times 09/29/2014
Between Beijing and Protests: Hong Kong's CEO
Wall Street Journal 10/01/2014
Hong Kong Protesters, Government Schedule Talks
Wall Street Journal 10/07/2014
Banyan: The spoiled brats of democracy
Economist 10/14/2014
Complicated Hong Kong Election Reform Plan Doesn’t Add Up, Activists Say
Wall Street Journal 04/22/2015
Hong Kong politics and government 2010-2017
03/05/2012
Grouped Articles
Hong Kong's New Leader Is Sworn In
Wall Street Journal 07/01/2012
Hong Kong Democracy Protest: Thousands March Through City
Wall Street Journal 07/02/2014
Crackdown on Protests by Hong Kong Police Draws More to the Streets
New York Times 09/28/2014
Pro-Democracy Protests Shake Hong Kong
Wall Street Journal 09/29/2014
Why Hong Kong’s protests are a very big deal - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/30/2014
China President Xi Jinping Faces Stark Choices Over Hong Kong Protests
Wall Street Journal 09/30/2014
Beijing's view of the universal suffrage issue in Hong Kong- Shiu Sin-Por, head of the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
11/16/2012
Shiu Sin-Por says the irony of the matter is that the issue arose when the Chinese government agreed in 2014 to accept universal suffrage for Hong Kong's citizens. The problem for the Democracy protest movement is the restriction that all candidates be acceptable to Beijing. Sin-Por cites as reason for this restriction as China's need for national security so that goals of national development can be achieved. China new government has serious economic challenges. Would it be easier and more certain with the lack of true Hong Kong sentiment being reflected in a fully open vote? There are risks for the Communist Party but these may be small compared to the benefits to the Communist Party of being able to get voter sentiment especially when there is no way to guage sentiment on the mainland. It is also consistent with the relationship China has sought with the U.S., Europe and Japan since 1990 for openness in the economy, technology transfers and foreign investment, which are even more important for China's next phase of development to transition into an advanced technological society- more important than in the first where basic technologies could be adopted easily. It is too small a price even for the cited "national security," as national security of China is better accomplished with continued technological progress through openness and contact with western society and institutions. The years in Li Keqiang's early personal development which he spent reading and studying about western institutions is itself proof about its lasting value to China. This kind of openness would be a fitting way to honor Gong Xiangrui, a professor of Li Keqiang, who also advocated this kind of openness to ideas, and which provided inspiration to Li to move China's development to the next stage. Jiang Zemin also took risks as he experimented with new ideas as Mayor of Shanghai, and later as president, the risks were small compared to the opportunities that came up in the process.
Grouped Articles
Hong Kong’s Pan Democrats Must Accept China’s Constitutional Powers
New York Times 10/13/2014
Next Premier Came of Age in Era of Openness
Wall Street Journal 11/16/2012
China Advisory Body Boots Hong Kong Lawmaker
Wall Street Journal 10/30/2014
Hong Kong protesters denied entry into China - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/25/2014
Complicated Hong Kong Election Reform Plan Doesn’t Add Up, Activists Say
Wall Street Journal 04/22/2015
The gradual end of student protests in Hong Kong by Nov. 26, 2014 as barricades are cleared
11/26/2014
Grouped Articles
Hong Kong police clear pro-democracy demonstrators’ protest site - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/26/2014
Hong Kong Protest Site in Mong Kok Cleared
Wall Street Journal 11/26/2014
Workers in Hong Kong Begin Dismantling Main Protest Camp
New York Times 12/10/2014
Complicated Hong Kong Election Reform Plan Doesn’t Add Up, Activists Say
Wall Street Journal 04/22/2015
Hong Kong democracy protests in 2014
07/02/2014
Grouped Articles
Hong Kong Democracy Protest: Thousands March Through City
Wall Street Journal 07/02/2014
Crackdown on Protests by Hong Kong Police Draws More to the Streets
New York Times 09/28/2014
Pro-Democracy Protests Shake Hong Kong
Wall Street Journal 09/29/2014
Why Hong Kong’s protests are a very big deal - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/30/2014
China President Xi Jinping Faces Stark Choices Over Hong Kong Protests
Wall Street Journal 09/30/2014
Protests in Hong Kong Have Roots in China’s ‘Two Systems’
New York Times 09/29/2014
Hong Kong's search for more democracy
03/15/2013
Grouped Articles
Friction With Beijing as Hong Kong Seeks More Democracy
New York Times 03/15/2013
Hong Kong Democracy Protest: Thousands March Through City
Wall Street Journal 07/02/2014
Crackdown on Protests by Hong Kong Police Draws More to the Streets
New York Times 09/28/2014
Pro-Democracy Protests Shake Hong Kong
Wall Street Journal 09/29/2014
Why Hong Kong’s protests are a very big deal - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/30/2014
China President Xi Jinping Faces Stark Choices Over Hong Kong Protests
Wall Street Journal 09/30/2014
We took a different way to help millions around the world build educated informed mindsets that affects and shapes their lives. For a future that is open, global and digital, with everyone having access to high quality information. We believe in the renewal of America, renewal of Europe, the renewal of India, the rest of Asia, Latin America and Africa. The renewal of our supply chains, health, education, infrastructure, as we rebuild our countries after the pandemic. Literacy and knowledge we believe cannot thrive and grow in a world of web bots, web crawlers, or AI. This requires human curiosity, human learning, and human imagination. We take as inspiration the saying- “One has to be free, and as broad as sky. One has to have a mind that is crystal clear, only then can truth shine in it.” Every contribution whether big or small is precious- in this crisis and ahead.
Support Lyrarc from as small as $1
Terms and Conditions | Copyright Policy | Privacy Policy | Contact Us