“We love Hong Kong. We don’t like the CCP [Chinese Communist party] because they are trying to destroy Hong Kong, trying to destroy our culture, our system, everything,” he said. “They attempt to mislead the public, squeeze the central government’s governance and influence over Hong Kong and erode its authority,” the Global Times said in an editorial. By excluding Leung and Yau from Legco Beijing hoped to nip Hong Kong’s independence movement in the bud, she said. But Pepper predicted that such efforts would fail as more and more people understood that China would never grant Hong Kong genuine autonomy.

Source: The Guardian November 07, 2016 04:41 UTC