Following my post in French about democracy in Hong Kong , I would like to add a video of Anson Chan, a pro-democracy leader in Hong Kong. I met her once in Hong Kong when she was running for the Legislative Council in 2007. I got deeply impressed by her humility and by her smile, which make people feel very close to her. This is something that many politicians fail to do. I agree up to a very large extent to her vision of Hong Kong.
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[...] The letter I wrote before coming to China reflects most of the stereotypes foreigners have about China. This means that at that time (2006), I did not really know China very well. I do think that, like me, most expatriates make the mistkae to identify China with the image of it that we get in the media. By the way, one of the stereotypes that was not in my email was “China as an evil dictatorship”. This topic deserves another post that I will try to write in the future. (But I have some posts about democracy in Hong Kong: post 1, post 2) [...]
[...] For my impressions about Hong Kong democracy, see: Good Morning Hong Kong Democracy I and II. [...]