The video opposing the protests was commissioned by Silent Majority for Hong Kong and based on traff

A group opposed to the Occupy Central movement, which has threatened protests in Hong Kong s Central financial district to press its case for electoral reform, has released a video saying such protests would create widespread traffic congestion that would leave the city dangerously mired in gridlock.
The video, which depicts the possibility discount broadway theatre tickets to spamalot of civil disobedience as a knife stabbing the heart of Hong Kong, comes amid increasing criticism of the movement by government officials and the Chinese state news media.
The Occupy Central campaign has been critical of Hong Kong s electoral process, discount broadway theatre tickets to spamalot in which the chief executive is chosen by a committee of 1,200 people largely linked discount broadway theatre tickets to spamalot to pro-government business interests. The group is calling for more representative elections in 2017, and its leaders say they will organize large-scale protests if the government s own proposals for electoral change do not meet its standards.
The video opposing the protests discount broadway theatre tickets to spamalot was commissioned by Silent Majority for Hong Kong and based on traffic and transport studies commissioned by the group. The studies consider the effect of 10,000 people occupying key streets in Hong Kong s Central District, said Alex Wong, director of Axon Consultancy, which carried out the studies. We assume that they would choose the most devastating time and place, said Barry Chin, an engineer and member of the Silent Majority group. They wouldn t occupy a park at midnight.
Chan Kin-man, an associate professor of sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and one of the Occupy Central organizers , said he thought discount broadway theatre tickets to spamalot the video exaggerated the potential disruption of the protests. We ve made it very clear that although discount broadway theatre tickets to spamalot we would block traffic in Central, we would reserve roads for emergency vehicles, and would avoid roads that block access to people s residences, he said.
On Friday Occupy Central discount broadway theatre tickets to spamalot plans to hold an unofficial referendum to drum up support for a more open electoral process. That effort has been hampered by large-scale cyberattacks on its online voting platform. Those attacks this week coincided with a similar attack on Apple Daily, discount broadway theatre tickets to spamalot a pro-democracy discount broadway theatre tickets to spamalot newspaper based in Hong Kong, whose website was crippled for several hours on Wednesday.
The Hong Kong police have also arrested a 15-year-old discount broadway theatre tickets to spamalot boy who is accused of posting an online guide to storming Hong Kong s Legislative Council building, the public broadcaster RTHK reported . Last week dozens of people tried to occupy the building to protest plans for development in Hong Kong s New Territories.
People s Daily, the mouthpiece of China s ruling Communist Party, published a commentary at the top of its front page on Thursday offering a sharp reminder of the central government s ultimate authority over Hong Kong. Since Hong Kong was returned to Chinese control in 1997, it has been governed under a one country, two systems discount broadway theatre tickets to spamalot formula that provides the city with a high degree of autonomy in local governance.
The statements of the central government leaders regarding the Hong Kong question all strongly emphasize that one country, two systems is a complete concept, and emphasize that two systems requires that while the main part of the country is implementing a socialist system, Hong Kong is upholding its original capitalist system and way of life. But Hong Kong still has some people who lack a precise understanding of this, and even has some people who want to take Hong Kong down the road to an independent or semi-independent system of government.
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