HK sees democracy hopes fade

[dArKeR]

Hong Kong's democracy movement suffered a major setback yesterday after Beijing effectively slapped down any hopes of full democracy within the next three years.

After three days of meetings with a Hong Kong task force charged with seeking the Chinese leadership's views on universal suffrage in the city by 2007, the central government declared democracy would have to wait.

The government said it would have the final say on political change, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/02/12/2003098429

[DerBeppo]

1. not a good idea

being born into a life with limited-to-no rights is one thing, but taking them away or delaying them from a group that has already lived with them is another.