Voting Diplomats

29 Aug 2010 - There is an ongoing debate in Hong Kong about universal suffrage for the Hong Kong people. So I was surprised to read in HK Magazine that some diplomats in the territory can vote. Among the seven million people in Hong Kong, only 226,000 people are eligible to vote for the functional constituencies in the Legislative Council (Legco). So it is astonishing that Cable TV discovered that some foreign delegates stationed in Hong Kong actually are eligible to vote too, because they are members of the chamber of commerce in Hong Kong. They can vote for the legislator representing the commerce sector. It means that even the de facto Taiwan representatives, not immediately China's best friends, can vote, while millions of Hong Kong residents can not. How absurd is that?