https://www.scmp.com/rss/503242/feed Peter Emerson is a founder member and director of the de Borda Institute, an international NGO which promotes preferential decision-making, especially in conflict zones. (He lives in Belfast and has worked extensively in the Balkans and Caucasus as well.) His first visit to mainland China was in 2014, where he has frequently lectured on inclusive voting procedures. Based on a one-year journey from Belfast to Beijing and beyond, his most recent work is Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Prospects for the new year are not good. Certain events, such as elections, are definite – presidential and parliamentary in Taiwan in January, Legislative Council in Hong Kong in September, and presidential in the United States in November. Everything else is uncertain. Let us consider the perspectives from both Beijing and Hong Kong.  But first, democracy should be win-win, not win-or-lose. Politics should be for (almost) everybody, not just 50 per cent plus one. Sadly, at the moment, it’s all... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3044496/how-hong-kongs-democracy-can-evolve-break-blue-versus-yellow?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3044496/how-hong-kongs-democracy-can-evolve-break-blue-versus-yellow?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 04 Jan 2020 12:00:11 +0000