Beijing’s Hong Kong Delusions Come Crashing Down
As the district council election results came in Sunday in Hong Kong, the pan-democratic camp the loose alliance of parties in favor of universal suffrage and opposed to Beijing s policies was ecstatic. The democrats had expected a likely victory, though nervous about possible interference and fixing but not of quite this scale. By the end of the night, the democrats had tripled their seats, beating the pro-Beijing camp 389-61 with the highest turnout ever. Seat after seat flipped yellow, as establishment representatives fell to a wave of public anger; the more tear gas had been used by the increasingly brutal Hong Kong police, the bigger the movement toward the democrats.
The ChiComs don’t seem to really understand how elections work.