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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Direct democratic elections for Chief Executive are guaranteed by the Basic Law, but in a "we'll get there eventually" kind of way.pic.twitter.com/DgsYXgaD2I
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It was supposed to have been rolled out in 2007. Got deferred to 2017. And now we are here ....
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Got it, thank you!
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