FINANCIAL TIMES: …If past examples are anything to go by, the beleaguered Hong Kong chief executive, CY Leung, will be left to solve the problem by masters in Beijing who may not even be answering his calls.
For even the lowliest county-level Communist party cadre in China, their first and most important responsibility is to keep their jurisdiction stable and “harmonious”. If they fail at this, they are usually given a chance to clean up their mess before their superiors decide what to do with them.
Those superiors have very little incentive to take command in the midst of a rebellion and risk being blamed if the situation spirals further out of control… (more)
EDITOR: We find the above to be fanciful. The nation’s leaders in Beijing are unlikely to set back while this challenge to authority spreads. They can only hope to keep the cork in the bottle so long.
