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July 28, 2010

Death of Hong Kong's Political Idealism

Kent Ewing, Asia Times

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HONG KONG - As this city's quest for democracy muddles along, the one-time champion of the cause, Martin Lee Chu-ming - darling of Washington and London in his heyday - finds himself an aging, lonely figure shunted to the sidelines of the debate. Always reviled in the city's pro-Beijing circles as a traitor to the motherland, he is now dismissed as yesterday's man by his own pan-democratic camp.

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