Is Pro-Democratic Candidates’ Victory in Hong Kong A True Victory of Democracy?
POLITICS / K. Venkateshwar Rao 3 DECEMBER 2019 The clean sweep by pro-democracy candidates in the recently concluded district council elections against the backdrop of prolonged street agitation by Hong Kongers may be termed as a victory of democracy in Hong Kong. But China thinks otherwise. Hong Kongers may rejoice on the triumph of pro-democracy candidates, but will this success pave the way for greater democracy for Hong Kongers or force China to stiffen its stand is a question, reply to which is being eagerly awaited by the industrial and political communities across the globe. Pro-democratic candidates’ victory has angered the Chinese government, and it is apparent by the Communist Party newspaper, The People’s Daily’s stand that the triumph is foreign powers’ conspiracy. Echoing the government’s stand, China Daily in an editorial said that young agitators sabotaged the campaign of pro-establishment candidates and threatened ...