By Chris Yeung
Last Friday night’s sharp critique of the work of the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office by the Communist Party’s high-powered graft buster has dropped a bombshell in the mainland-Hong Kong political landscape.
China-watchers and political pundits were perplexed about the scathing attacks against the mainland’s key driver of the Hong Kong policy by the party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection at the end of an inspection conducted between July and August.
Questions were raised about its implications on Beijing’s policy towards Hong Kong and the fate of the HKMAO and the central government’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong. And more important, whether the criticism against the HKMAO has any impact on the upcoming 2017 Chief Executive election.
There are no immediate answers.
The only certainty is uncertainty. It looks increasingly certain changes in Beijing’s tactic and approach, if not policy, towards Hong Kong, are imminent.
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http://www.vohk.hk/2016/10/16/hkmao-bashing-report-a-curtain-raiser-of-change/
