Conflicts of Beijing and Hong Kong

A meeting between the city council of Hong Kong and the Chinese Communist Party just ended, and was remarkable due to the fact that more members of the Hong Kong council attended than ever before. However, there is still no change that not everyone was there, in fact only three-quarters of the Hong Kong city council attended in solitary protest, only ten of the ones whom attended were democrats. The former British city has adopted a very western mind for a majority of the public, and view most of what the CCP is doing in China to be censorship and still restricting human rights. These are reasons contributing to the many disputes Hong Kong has with inland China and why they hesitate to call them selves as a full part of the country. A westernized Hong Kong will have a lot of trouble agreeing with a China that is still trying to climb out of communism and living in an illiberal democracy. 

With one of the great Chinese cities having so much trouble dealing with the inland CCP, makes it hard to imagine how other countries can get along with it. The cleavages revealed are also partially do to the Tiananmen crisis and to rethink it. When any Hong Kong lawmaker is to bring it up the CCP ignores it and try to convince any democrats who may mention Tiananmen to stay away. Most accounts are successful.  This is interesting to see that China truly has not changed in the past few years and is still trying to produce mass censorship, even amongst its own lawmakers.

BBC Talk on Hong Kong political reform