which was characterised by filibustering, excessive ones, and violence was incited in the legislative council chamber. and right now, with the new legco, we are three weeks into swearing in and the environment is a lot better now. the chief executive came to the legislative council for an increased session two weeks ago, and there are a lot of enquiries from different legco members asking them about different social issues. so the legco right now is more focused on solving socioeconomic issues in hong kong, as opposed to just quarrelling and political debates like previously in legco. right, i was wondering to myself whether you would use the word democracy, and i notice you didn t. so any pretence that hong kong was moving to a more democratic, pluralistic system, that s been abandoned, has it? i don t agree with what you
about different social issues. so the legco right now is more focused on solving socioeconomic issues in hong kong, as opposed to just quarrelling and political debates like previously in legco. right, i was wondering to myself whether you would use the word democracy, and i notice you didn t. so any pretence that hong kong was moving to a more democratic, pluralistic system, that s been abandoned, has it? i don t agree with what you said at all, because i think when we look at democracy, there are a lot of different systems. the democracy in a lot of people, it does notjust represent election politics, if that s what you re referring to. in china, we practise what we call whole process democracy, at which democracy is in every stage of the decision making process an election is one part of it, one big part of it.
about different social issues. so the legco right now is more focused on solving socioeconomic issues in hong kong, as opposed to just quarrelling and political debates like previously in legco. right, i was wondering to myself whether you would use the word democracy, and i notice you didn t. so any pretence that hong kong was moving to a more democratic, pluralistic system, that s been abandoned, has it? i don t agree with what you said at all, because i think when we look at democracy, there are a lot of different systems. the democracy in a lot of people, it does notjust represent election politics, if that s what you re referring to. in china, we practise what we call whole process democracy, at which democracy is in every stage of
political system? it s a revamped system, and i think it s an enhancement to the previous system, which was characterised by filibustering, excessive ones, and violence was incited in the legislative council chamber. and right now, with the new legco, we are three weeks into swearing in and the environment is a lot better now. the chief executive came to the legislative council for an increased session two weeks ago, and there are a lot of enquiries from different legco members asking them about different social issues. so the legco right now is more focused on solving socioeconomic issues in hong kong, as opposed to just quarrelling and political debates like previously in legco. right, i was wondering to myself whether you would use the word democracy, and i notice you didn t. so any pretence that hong kong was moving to a more democratic, pluralistic system, that s been abandoned, has it?
kind of solution and jane eluded to it, you got to get the russians feel getting assad out benefits more than keeping him in and start some kind of renegotiation. but the russians fear a radical islamist government in syria hugely. think chechnya inside of russia. bashar, i think more victories by the opposition even though we are not helping very much. eventually they will come around, it seems to me and see what happens. my first choice is a unified moderate government. my second choice by them is some kind of pluralistic system, think lebanon and that would not be a bad outcome at this point but it can t go on like this. former congressman jane harman, thank you very much. tom need friedman, thank you as well. his book is before beirut to