We always found it interesting how these young demonstrators had all this elaborate expensive equipment: many bullhorns, vehicles, expensive state of the art professional large printed signs, that's not what "real" people can afford....
I have to laugh when Hong Kong refers to their history of democracy and elections. At no time have they ever had an elected governor. The British simply appointed one. He compared their system to the US, absurd. It would be the equivalent of the US voting for congress but the president being a British appointee.
I think Mr Lee here meant the Hong Kong after the handover, not when it was the colony back then. And you are absolutely right, there was no such thing as democracy before 1997 in Hong Kong, and it is laughable when I saw some Hong Kong youths waving British flags calling for "democracy" in 2019 during the riot.
We always found it interesting how these young demonstrators had all this elaborate expensive equipment: many bullhorns, vehicles, expensive state of the art professional large printed signs, that's not what "real" people can afford....
I have to laugh when Hong Kong refers to their history of democracy and elections. At no time have they ever had an elected governor. The British simply appointed one. He compared their system to the US, absurd. It would be the equivalent of the US voting for congress but the president being a British appointee.
I think Mr Lee here meant the Hong Kong after the handover, not when it was the colony back then. And you are absolutely right, there was no such thing as democracy before 1997 in Hong Kong, and it is laughable when I saw some Hong Kong youths waving British flags calling for "democracy" in 2019 during the riot.