As tear gas filled Hong Kong’s streets over the weekend amid an unending governing crisis, a different political show played out just an hour’s ferry ride away in Macau.
On Sunday, 400 members of the gambling hub’s pro-Beijing elite went ahead as expected and picked Ho Iat-seng, the son of an industrial tycoon with strong ties to China, as the city’s next leader.
He was the only candidate on the ballot.
For Hong Kong’s young protesters, the tightly scripted appointment of Ho is yet another reminder for why they have chosen to openly defy Beijing.
Like the former British colony of Hong Kong, Macau is a former colony – of Portugal– that returned to Chinese rule some 20 years ago under an arran
Aug 29, 2019