SHAME-FREE thread: ask the dumbest question you have about the Hong Kong protests. I'll try to answer it or loop in a real Hong Konger to answer it for you. No question too ignorant or basic.
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CE's power inherited from British Governor + imbalance of power between executive and legislative branch
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and the colonial era "Emergency Law" that basically gives unlimited power to the Chief Executive as she wishes
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OMG yes, how did I forget that? More generally, the worst British legacy in Hong Kong is that they never allowed a level of self-rule commensurate with the civil liberties that Hong Kongers enjoy, at least in theory. And that they did not give Hong Kongers the right to abode
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