MY column this week:
One year after the Occupy movement almost paralyzed Hong Kong as it rallied against electoral system proposals, top representatives of the central government in the neighboring SAR have repeatedly made statements that question the foundations of the “one country, two systems” principle.

All of those statements seem to show an unwillingness from China to develop towards a model that upholds the major provisions of the Basic Law(s) in Hong Kong and Macau, namely the separation of powers (whereby the executive and the judiciary form separate branches), freedom of speech as a basic human right, and the consequent non-criminalization of dissent.

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