
‘Two systems’ does not mean two countries
If what Mr Nanik alleges is true, then those concerned have only brought it upon themselves with their years of treating two systems as two countries.
Everything that Beijing has required to be done is pursuant to the Basic Law. Just name the issue which he thinks was not, and I’ll be happy to point him to the relevant article(s) of the Basic Law.
The SAR administration decided by itself to disqualify activist Agnes Chow Ting and that was because her platform goes against the Basic Law. All that the pan-democrat legislators have been doing is rendering the Legislative Council dysfunctional, which is not true to their duty.
Mr Nanik’s, and for that matter Agnes Chow Ting’s, main complaint is that Beijing is not giving us universal suffrage and therefore we lack what they call true democracy. But read Article 45 and they will see that, ultimately, upon nomination of the candidates by the nomination committee, the chief executive will be selected by universal suffrage.