HONG KONG — The new top American diplomat in Hong Kong reiterated on Tuesday the United States’ support for “genuine universal suffrage” in Hong Kong, but said he would not take any position on how this should be achieved.
Clifford A. Hart Jr., the new American consul general, who arrived on July 30, said in his first public speech here, “We have no prescription for Hong Kong’s electoral process — one of the fundamental precepts of democracy is that the people themselves have a full say in how their systems work.”
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Keith Bradsher, The New York Times via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/7b8SeTYbeDw/
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