The "Coalition of the Willing" doesn't seem to care that people are marching in the streets, asking for universal suffrage. Britain has really turned its back on these people and for a guy who talks so much about freedom and democracy, Bush ignores this group as well. Thank goodness the global corporates are all doing business there, helping government officials become rich. It's striking how the Bush crowd seem to use the same rhetoric, smear and intimidation tactics as the communist China government. I'll bet Bush loves how the PRC government also pistol whips the press.
"Activists have been angered by a Chinese ruling in April that ended hopes of universal suffrage by 2007, when the city must select its next leader.
The ruling prompted international criticism and fears that China was encroaching on principles set out at the 1997 handover under which freewheeling capitalist Hong Kong was guaranteed limited autonomy for a period of 50 years.
Democrats were called traitors by Beijing, and Chinese leaders were accused of mounting a campaign of intimidation against democracy figures."
