Contrary to gloomy predictions from some quarters including your paper, that Beijing would tighten its grip on the SAR following the resignation of Chief Secretary Anson Chan, I think the people of Hong Kong can now look forward to a better future.
I have doubted from day one Mrs Chan's ability to fit into a new Hong Kong Government, after serving the non-democratic, blood-sucking British colonial administration for 35 years.
The British colonial government naturally only looked after British and Western interests, whereas the new Hong Kong Government has to take care of Hong Kong's interests and China's national interests.
The Western media have never been fair to the SAR Government. For example, whenever Tung Chee-hwa's name is mentioned in the Western press, it is always preceded with the words 'Beijing-appointed'. For 156 years, the Western media never referred to the colonial governor as 'London-appointed'.
Before Britain was forced by Deng Xiaoping to sign an agreement in 1984 to hand Hong Kong back to China, the Western press had never raised democracy or human rights issues in Hong Kong. Journalists caught this democracy and human-rights 'fever' only after 1984.
If the British practised what they preached, then they would withdraw from the Falkland Islands and allow the natives of the islands to determine their own future.
