Hong Kong is having a leadership crisis | By Michael Bociurkiw for CNNOpinion
Michael Bociurkiw is a global affairs analyst and a former spokesman for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He is currently in Hong Kong. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his; view more opinions on CNN.
The late Chinese Communist leader, Deng Xiaoping, promised comrades and patriots that even after the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to China,"horses will still run, stocks will still sizzle and dancers will still dance" in the free-wheeling territory. While the horses are still running at the appropriately named Happy Valley racecourse on Hong Kong Island, there is no dancing in the streets after 14 weeks of protests that have ignited violence.It won't be much longer before the local economy, which was slumping even before the protests, could be wheeled into intensive care.
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