As the world watches in amazement while the Asian financial center is wracked by increasingly violent confrontations, and rocked by calls for greater democracy, it is clear that Beijing has been caught badly by surprise
Hong Kong businessman Sam Tsang does not like to talk politics. As a senior business consultant who travels frequently to mainland China and Taiwan, he knows silence is often golden.He was in for a shock when, one night in mid-July, his boss introduced him to two “mainland researchers” who were visiting Hong Kong. That evening, all they talked about was politics.
Just a month before the protests began, Vice-Premier Han Zheng — China’s top man in charge of Hong Kong affairs — told the city’s delegates to the national congress that “the political atmosphere in Hong Kong is changing for the better” and “Hong Kong has set on to the right path of development." Back in 2003, when half a million Hongkongers marched to oppose the proposed national security law, Beijing was equally shocked and did exactly the same thing. At the time, Loh was running a public policy think tank she had founded after serving eight years in Legco.
The central government’s liaison office in the city, for example, has a “research office” tasked with monitoring public opinion and sending Beijing daily briefings of Hong Kong media reports across the political spectrum. The office also regularly meets pro-Beijing figures and groups in the political and business circles, as well as in the grass roots of society.
Nor does it end there. The Hong Kong government itself is tasked with keeping the central government informed on the situation in the city, and so are the 200 or so Hong Kong members of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, not to mention the 36 Hong Kong delegates to the National People’s Congress.
The fact that so many departments are involved but lack cooperation and coordination can make things more difficult by creating "internal strife," said Tian Feilong, an associate law professor at Beihang University in Beijing.
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