Twenty years ago, Hong Kong people’s support of the students demonstrating in Tiananmen Square hardened China’s view about the risk of democratic development in the territory. Hong Kong’s Basic Law, adopted by the National People’s Congress eight months after the bloody crackdown on June 4, 1989, stipulates that the ultimate aim of universal suffrage should have regard to “the principle of gradual and orderly progress”.
(One of the RTHK programs covering the 20th Anniversary of June 4th, 1989) (more…)