Sunday the election had record turnout following 6 months of protests that rocked the island now while those who support the protests not stay when not everyone is on board china daily published an editorial monday stating the results of sundays District Council d election marks a setback for hong kongs Democratic Development as the results were skewed by the illegal activities of the opposition camp to the benefit their candidates in the run up to sundays voting members of the opposition camp particularly their young agitator is engaged in an all out campaign to sabotage the Campaign Activities of pro establishment candidates and intimidate their supporters from going to the ballot box now kristie theres a lot going on here but what is the significance of those big wins for the pan democrats in hong kong you know economically and otherwise this is actually quite significant because as the markets look at this was a reading of barometric reading on the overall sentiment in hong kong an
A lot going on here but what is the significance of those big wins for the pan democrats in hong kong you know economically and otherwise this is actually quite significant because as the markets look at this was a reading of barometric reading on the overall sentiment in hong kong and how how the people really felt because Mainland China was actually quite surprised by this turn out they were actually completely surprised and blindsided because they thought that the opposition would not be as strong as they all are and react as strongly as they did because as you said this was a record turnout over 70 percent of the voters actually turned out and not to mention this is for some of the least powerful positions on the council there pretty much response for anything relating to like garbage pickup to street cleaning to Like Community labor so these are not the primary elections so its surprising that so many people turned out to vote for elections that werent at the sentiment stage and y
A very important deal i guess you could say one of the most important deals in trade ever. Its going very well but at the same time we want to see it go well and. I think it will think that president xi can make that happen and i know him and i know hed like to make it happen Chinas Ministry of commerce also commented on the call between private. And u. S. Trade representative robert litan hisor and treasury secretary Steven Nugent saying the 2 sides had reached a consensus on how to resolve some key issues and would continue to work in to come to terms on an eventual deal in hong kong the pan democrats scored big victories as they won nearly 90 percent of the 452 District Council seats in elections held sunday the election had record turnout following 6 months of protests that rock to the island now while those who support the protests not stay when not everyone is on board china. Daily published an editorial monday stating the results of sundays District Council d election marks a se
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