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(b) Reuters report a day earlier:
China asserts paternal rights over Hong Kong in democracy clashBy James PomfretHONG KONG Thu Sep 11, 2014 6:31am EDTwww.reuters.com/article/2014/09/11/us-china-hongkong-insight-idUSKBN0H600120140911
two consecutive paragraphs:
“After the formal smiles and handshakes with Zhang Xiaoming, the head of China's Liaison Office in Hong Kong, the mood soured. Pro-democracy lawmaker Leung Yiu-chung 梁耀忠 asked Zhang whether Beijing would allow any democrat to run for the city’s highest office.
“Zhang, 51, dressed in a black suit and a navy blue striped tie, delivered a blunt response. ‘The fact that you are allowed to stay alive, already shows the country's inclusiveness,’ he answered, according to two people in the room who declined to be named. Zhang's office did not respond to several faxed requests for comment.
(i) "’The Occupy Central with Love and Peace’ 讓愛與和平佔領中環 movement coalesced in January 2013 after Benny Tai, a law professor at the University of Hong Kong, wrote a newspaper column 信報專欄 proposing a Gandhi-like civil disobedience movement – an escalation from the usual marches and candlelight vigils – to press for universal suffrage.”
Benny TAI Yiu-ting 戴耀廷, Associate Professor 香港大學法律系副教授
(ii) “Jasper Tsang [Yok-sing 曾鈺成], one of the founders of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong 民主建港協進聯盟, the city's largest political party, said China’s leaders never promised full democracy.”
(c) Apple Daily summarized the Reuters Sept 11 report in CHINESE.
荒唐 陸官嗆泛民「北京讓你們活著」. 蘋果日報 (Taiwan), 2014年09月12日
www.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily ... /20140912/36079618/荒唐陸官嗆泛民「北京讓你們活著」
My comment: Why the URL is Apple Taiwan, rather than Apple Hong Kong (which I can not find, despite diligent search), I have no idea.
(d) It is 1:50 pm EDT, Sept 13, 2014. VoA Chinese has not published anything on this topic.
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