China's Broken Promises on Hong Kong's Democracy: Hong Kong's Unreal
Election Campaign, Under Chinese Rule, Result Is a Given

Hong Kong's Unreal Election Campaign
Under Chinese Rule, Result Is a Given, But Challenger Hopes to Inspire
Activism

By Edward Cody
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, March 25, 2007; A15

HONG KONG, March 24 -- As Canto-pop music blared and Chief Executive
Donald Tsang waved from the stage to a cheering crowd of supporters, it
was easy to imagine that he was really campaigning for reelection as
Hong Kong's leader.

Hong Kong, a former British colony that returned to Chinese rule 10
years ago in July, has been enjoying the trappings of electoral
democracy for weeks, with televised debates, dueling platforms and
rallies such as the one Tsang's backers organized Friday night in a
pocket park tucked among the skyscrapers. The experience, Tsang told his
boisterous followers, has been "a wonderful journey."