| ...ASIA/MIDDLE EAST: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh & women, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon/yemen, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore-Asean, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, -eurasia, Russia- we list twice because most of its land is in asia but traditionally its capital and history is categorised as european.... | livesmatter & entrepreneurialrevolution mapmaking 1 2 quiz - start at the pakistan port of gwadar and move east along the coastal belt of asia; the coastline will take you from lat 20 down to the equator twice before turning north at sinpapore continue up and up past asean south east rising suns, around china , korea, south, now its getting icy cold at north korea and russias extreme north east which starts to turn west at the bering st having reached within 50 miles of alaska and the start of america's western coastal belt; more than half the world's peoples lives-continental asians - depend on worldwide trade access to the coastal belt between pakistan and south korea but from 1760 when britannia had firstcomers adavantage with machines almost that whole region got increasingly colonised for london capitalists to win and other peoples lives including slaves to lose -infrastructures such as electricity grids and running water were never piped into the continent only the places the brits inhabited to divide and conquer- -this was a root cause of 2 world wars with 20th c japan joining in empiring other the asian continent from the east- above all else the birth of the united nations san fran opera house 1945 needed to help nations that had been trapped by empire regain independence through win-win trading opportunities- 4 "vest"solutions started to emerge by 1960..at the tokyo olympics 1964 prince charles japan royal family, tech leaders like sony agreed these technologies starting with american demings engineering and american borlaugs rice science could develop all of asia out of poverty and to being as great a place for next baby girls to be born in 21st c as anywhere else- sadly jf kennedy was assassinated a year earlier- american politicns and professions to the biggest organisations never fully understood that america having saved the old world twice from wars, everyone could now empower asian girls and boys to community build and celbrate win-win from what alumni of gordon moore promised to be 100 times more tech ever decade to the 2020s- covid is what buckminster fuller called one of nature's final examinations of all of us- i am confident american youth want to join in uniting the world but when it comes to americas political elders is it ignorance of mapping asia's diversity- if so let this blog help- or some in-built hatred rife among white supremacists with america's own peopl and fanned by dismal media to hate every skin color under the sun other than hitler's shade of white | reporting on those who value youth most put of china .. korea .. japan.. hongkong bangladesh india UAE indonesia thailand malaysia singapore ...update from chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk fall 2020 just outofbeltway USA, livesmatter.city- my experience is that there is no greater privilege in life than traveling and interviewing trusted young people about their hopes and fears -this experience comes from starting with an MA IN STATISTICS DAMPT CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE 1973, DOING OPINION RESEARCH GEARED TO GLOBAL NEW PRODUCTS AND SOCIETAL TECH, as well as my diaspora scot family having kept journals or reported from asia for over 150 years- my mother was born in mumbai and 3 generations of her family were pharMacists eg kemps corner nurses of chief justices eg grandad sir ken whose last job was writing up legalese of india's independence after 25 years of listening to mumbai's other bar of london barrister- mahatma gandhi- my dads first job as teenager was in bomber command navigating over modernday myanmar/bangladesh- surviving his career at the economist tried to roll back poverty system london had trapped asians - two thirds of our species in- in 1962 he celebrate rise of his old enemy japan then all asian rising suns eg korea taiwan hk singapore then 1977 china mainand--i have been privileged to visit asia over 65 times -the first 40 times doing client work interviewin nations youth on their grreatest needs for transnational corporations and market sectors - the last 25 times escorting young journalists to bangladesh or china- this blog recreates a diary f what i have heard from youth on their greatest entrepreneurial challnges - i feature countries by date of first year visited- eg my diary of china visits started in 2016- notwithstanding hatred some english speaking people have caused recently -if you want to see the future happening china is an essential place to keep connecting- sadly usa with the exeption of a few colleges where entrepreneurialo freedom is just about alive- the only advantage of being a diaspora scot seems to me loving each others children- wanting the best not the worst of every community sustaining solution traveling round mothers nature with hi-trust young guides | welcome - our latest update of aiib projects is july 2020- in human population terms the greatest education and innovation miracles needed to stem from asia-pacific -see rural keynesian mapmaking since 1977- moores law has been multiplying 100 times more human connectivity per decade since moon landing- it was inevitable that by 2020s the east and west's greatest risks and need for solutions would be the same- in economic terms edutech needed to connect win-wins between youth of all hemispheres race to sdgs- you cant be 5g ai ed 5-sense cyber space interconnected and have some communities thriving and others collapsing- make an index of who was testing ready, what big data they can now ai analyse and the opposite league table- you may conclude that any millennial who wants to help the war on virus needs hitrust millennial friend across the far east islands of japan taiwan hk singapore the peninsular of south korea, mainland china , every border of china that wants data without fatal gaps human development economics- the economist mapped these between 1962 and 1978- then turned to educational and financial entrepreneurial revolution needed to win-wn worldwide if the post-industrial knowhow webbing planet was to huper connect millennials as the first sdg generation | quick country searches include korea ... .....after world war 2 the main community resiliency needs were mappable across the continent of asia where over 60% of human beings lived without access to electricity grids because europes colonial empires led the island-led mernatike world uk pound economy had focused on mercantile trade- moreover the way the usa had developed across the continent was not replicable to asia- however asian development solutions might have some parallels for developing two more tenths of human beings living in africa and central and south america- we track 4 technology revolutions that grew ; deming inspired engineering, rural keynesianism beginning with borlaug crop science and barefoot medis, satellites space , telecoms and mobiles- and analytical digital capacity beginning with von neumann as father of programmable computing and promising 100 times moore analytical power per decade through moores law-whee and how did these force ,ultipliers map human development win-wins- and how did they intersect positively or negatively with macroeconomists who kept on perpetrating paper currencies dynamics of the pound and then its far bigger successor the dollar economy..... | Economistindia.net and EconomistBangla.com and EconomistRefugee.com welcome you to the hitchhikers guide to the oceans Belts and Continents railRoads/pipes/cables etc -bottom up solutions need replicating through communities as digital leapfrog collaboration permits what half a millennium og mercantile colonisation never could celebrate - health is the most fundamental service of girl empowerment communities - so special thanks from girls to health servants like Brilliant, Kim ,Sir Fazle and universal health id network of Nilekani. UNwomens linkedin:..schools new curricula:2/5 of people live in china & s.asia- how to share their sustainability solutions everywhere; 2/5 of world's land is in china and its north and north west-how do overland roads linking in sustainability; far more than 2/5 of world shipping trade revolves round coastal belt east of china- how will sustainbility world trade roures map- join us at BRI.school- next week long retreat BRACinn Dhaka sept 30 to Oct 6. Special thanks to AlibabaUni.com and NormanMacrae.net for this special opprtunity to celebrate yerr 50 of The Economist's Entrepreneurail Revolution - redesign every market's value chain to SME networks thrive by changing education until youth livelihods match sustainability goals rising everywhere. RSVP isabella@unacknowledgedgiant.com | .. .. | what can unicorn analysis tell us about whether investors and educators want youth to be the SDG generation? related tour asia rising with nhk GOAL 1 - ending poverty begins with ending the lottery- current odds about 1 in 4 - that the next girl born will have next to no chance of a decent livelihood- mostly this results from history's era of colonisation which spiralled over 5 centuries 16th to 20th as a few monetarily large nations (about tenth of peoples) decimated the economies of others; it wasn't really to 1972 that one of 10 most populated ex colonial nations bangladesh started today's benchmark solution to ending rural poverty- born as a new nation bangladesh had next to zero taxes to govern social solutions with but unlike other colonies its 2 most extraordinary economists went the villages to live and learn with the poor- and to see how partnering with foreign assistance bottom-up girl empowered communities could build - the greatest case of Entrepreneurial Revolution since journalist records began in 1968. Consider Bangladesh's grassroots networking involved 25 years of no electricity and no digital development follows by partnering tech companies with experiments since 1996 today economistpoverty benchmarks solutions at brac and bkash and since april 2018 chinese greatest fintech for small enterprise have joined in these partnerships so that sino-s asia is the space to celebrate girl empowerment and every extreme solution to goals 1 to 17 .. those who wish to end poverty in old cities of big nations might start linking ted leonsis 1 2 Asia's SDG advocates 1 2 hail from : India: Dia Mirza 1, Qatar Sheikha Moza 1, China Jack Ma, Iraq Murad |
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few people have contributed ss much to the world as the 6 million in hong kong
they deserve and are fully capable of doing extraordinary things with the new tech for themselves and all their neighbors- they are in the top division of livesmatter.city
the current situation is complex but it needs to be mediated by people who love hong kong including local billionaires elders of li ka-shing type and education tech wizards like charles yidan as well as support from [people like jack ma
hk can be a great place for real 5g and all the leading edge tech of 2020s www.innovations..ning.com
the last thing hong kong needs to be one of pieces of the world malevolent people like donald trump abuse
today's opinion piece ij jack's newspaper may not be right or wrong but at least it cares
few people have contributed ss much to the world as the 6 million in hong kong
they deserve and are fully capable of doing extraordinary things with the new tech for themselves and all their neighbors- they are in the top division of livesmatter.city
the current situation is complex but it needs to be mediated by people who love hong kong including local billionaires elders of li ka-shing type and education tech wizards like charles yidan as well as support from [people like jack ma
hk can be a great place for real 5g and all the leading edge tech of 2020s www.innovations..ning.com
the last thing hong kong needs to be one of pieces of the world malevolent people like donald trump abuse
today's opinion piece ij jack's newspaper may not be right or wrong but at least it cares
Why Hong Kong does not need more democracy right now
- The chaos and instability unleashed by the quest for universal suffrage, the gridlock in the legislature and the government’s declining efficacy support a halt in the expansion of democracy
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Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters march in central Hong Kong on January 1 as they continue to pressure the government to meet their five demands, including greater democracy, amnesty for arrested protesters and an independent inquiry into police use of force. Photo: Kyodo
Ever since the future of postcolonial Hong Kong became an issue in the early 1980s, the quest for universal suffrage, narrowly equated with democracy, has in some quarters become the be all and end all of the “one country, two systems” project.
The outgoing British rulers deftly managed to escape censure for not granting Hongkongers universal suffrage much earlier, but China got blamed for allegedly breaking its “promise” of democracy in the
on the future of Hong Kong.
In fact, the words “universal suffrage” never appear in the Sino-British Joint Declaration. The promise of universal suffrage was made by China in the
, as a long-term possibility and subject to certain clear preconditions: “in the light of the actual situation” and “in accordance with the principle of gradual and orderly progress”.
In early 2013, former law professor Benny Tai Yiu-ting unveiled his “
” plan to pressurise Beijing into fulfilling its “universal suffrage” pledge. The tumultuous events which followed hardly portray a path to democracy which accords with the principle of “gradual and orderly progress”.
The years that followed Tai’s clarion call have been anything but peaceful, punctuated by the unlawful occupation of Hong Kong’s business districts for 79 days in late 2014, the
in Mong Kok in early 2016, and the year-long, often violent anti-government protests which started in June 2019.
Some democracy advocates argue that the answer to Hong Kong’s democratic convulsions is more democracy. Yet the chaos and instability unleashed by the quest for universal suffrage, coupled with the gridlock in the legislature, and the government’s declining efficacy, lend strong support to the opposing view that the situation in Hong Kong calls for a halt rather than an advancement in the expansion of suffrage.
The origins and process of Hong Kong’s democratic development differ radically from those of Singapore, the Asian counterpart Hong Kong is often compared to. Led by its indomitable founding father
, Singapore won its independence by fighting colonialists and communists, and negotiating a divorce with Malaysia.
In comparison, Hong Kong’s democratic stirrings in the 1980s did not emanate from the masses. A new, representative model was superimposed by the departing colonial masters, under the pretext of protecting human rights, but more with a view to curbing the potentially sweeping powers of the Chinese state.
Twenty-three years after the handover, the United States has filled the void left by the British to act as the promoter-in-chief of Hong Kong’s democracy. Brushing aside the preconditions set by China in the Basic Law, American politicians have introduced resolutions and
that would have Hong Kong leap forward to “freely and fairly nominate the chief executive”, and establish by 2020 “open and direct elections for all members of the Hong Kong Legislative Council”.
Such commands on Hong Kong were written into US laws, notwithstanding that the US itself took 144 years after its independence to grant women the right to vote, and 189 years to grant its black people an uninhibited right to vote with the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
The establishment of the National Endowment for Democracy in 1983 by the Reagan administration signals a clear shift in US foreign policy to focus on fostering democratic change in communist and non-communist “authoritarian” countries. Yet chronicles of American efforts to democratise show that waves of democratisation in many parts of the world have been interrupted or reversed.
Many of the newly formed democracies which have implemented universal suffrage only satisfy the formal or minimalist requirements of democracies.
Many such countries have not been able to maintain economic growth, guarantee the protection of individual rights and freedoms, stamp out corruption, ensure social justice or simply give their people a better life. They have failed miserably on the test of performance legitimacy.
Boys wear costumes and carry Libyan flags during a celebration of the eighth anniversary of the revolution in Benghazi, Libya on February 17, 2019. The oil-rich nation has been rocked by violent power struggles between an array of armed groups since the Nato-backed overthrow of dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Photo: Reuters
While championing democratisation abroad, the US has consistently turned a blind eye to the fact that not all countries or territories are as exceptionally endowed with all the right conditions for a flourishing democracy as itself. Hong Kong’s fledgling democracy, unlike democracy in the US, was not founded by elites firmly committed to democratic ideals.
It was imposed top-down, and the elites, which in Hong Kong’s plutocratic society usually take the shape of well-heeled tycoons and professionals, soon found the opportunity costs of democratic politics not worth their labours. As the result, with few exceptions, Hong Kong’s elites have not taken part in competitive elections.
As the outcomes of the “
” conducted by the pan-democratic camp last month manifest, the traditional democrats have been overshadowed by the
, and the Civic Party, which used to be led by elites, have become hijacked by radicals. Following the enactment of the national security law, political parties have no future if they are found to be in cahoots with external forces to foster regime change.
A democracy cannot function effectively to give people hope if opposing camps cannot work together to solve problems and deliver change. Hong Kong’s democracy advocates are bound to fail if what they seek is political change which runs counter to China’s constitution and national policies. The recourse to violence and external pressure to enforce change would only provoke a sharp response, which could spell the untimely demise of Hong Kong’s fragile democracy.
Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee is a lawmaker and chairwoman of the New People’s Party
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