Screening Quotes



The Communist party officials in Peking would screen all the candidates and eliminate populist of corporation hostile politicians who might turn the Hong Kong election into a class warfare type of conflict where the vast majority of poor or lower middle class Hong Kong citizens would pressure all candidates to commit to more equality be passing taxes and other laws that might put restrictions on corporations which would inhibit the open capitalistic system in Hong Kong, where a person can have an idea in the morning, form a corporation by Noon and set up offices and start to do business before the end of the day having fulfilled all required legal obligations. One irony here is the richest capitalists would be expected to oppose a numerical control of the City, but they are joined by Mr. Leung and the Chinese Communist Party in wanting to be sure that the rich businessmen had a great deal of influence and power. Chinese Communism makes for some very strange bedfellows. See {642335}.