By Chris Yeung
If Youngspiration duo Sixtus Baggio Leung Chung-hang and Yau Wai-ching have been seen as political rising stars after their success in the September Legco election, their political stardom faded into darkness following a High Court ruling on Tuesday. Justice Thomas Au Hing-cheung ruled they lost their seats after they breached the oath ordinance in their oaths on October 12.
If they had aspired to promote the notion of “self-determination” of Hong Kong as a “nation” at the Legco, their mission failed began it officially started. But if their mission, as conspiracy theorists have touted, was to push the advocacy of a “Hong Kong independence” beyond the red line for Beijing to invoke its power to keep it at bay, it is a case of mission accomplished.
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