Bid for outside help a failure

Hong Kong's 'opposition' camp is discovering how little support it has in the international community for its unconstitutional cause

Martin Lee and Anson Chan, two fading "stars" from the "opposition" camp in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, visited Britain in mid-July. Their London trip coincided with the release of the SAR government's public consultation report on Hong Kong's constitutional development. It also came at the same time as Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's report to the National People's Congress Standing Committee regarding constitutional reform and the 2017 chief executive election by universal suffrage.

The pair's goal in Britain was to garner British support for the Hong Kong opposition's unconstitutional, unpopular cause. However, all they got was the cold shoulder and some less than encouraging comments. As a headline in the Oriental Daily News said: "Martin Lee, Anson Chan humiliated for bad-mouthing Hong Kong."