Friday, January 18, 2008

History Homework

The distribution of power in Hong Kong is simalar to the Middle Ages. The main thing which is different is there are two "kings". The president of China and the CEO of Hong Kong SAR. The head of each government department and agencies are the "knights". For anothers they are all the king. There are also "barons" in Hong Kong. Those rich people who built up charity are the "barons". I think distributing the power in this way isn't good because there are two "kings". As what we know the president of China gives so much instruction to the CEO of Hong Kong SAR. For example, people in Hong Kong hope that they can vote for their own CEO in 2012. What"s the results? The Chinese government say we can vote at 2017. Voting from the citizen of Hong Kong is always dicussing in the Hong Kong society since 1997. From 1997-2017, it's already 20years time. I think it is quite bad to have preparation for voting for a CEO for 20years. As this example, we can see that the power actually is holding on the president's hand. Not hte CEO of Hong Kong. We still call the CEO of Hong Kong the topest person in our society. Honestly, the Chinese government is the real person who control Hong Kong.

1 comment:

Wootang01 said...

You draw good parallels between the two periods of time. Maybe everyone nowadays has a different name but their roles remain the same.

Barons certainly don't run charities as their primary business; they run international corporations that make lots, and lots of money - for themselves!