Name: 香港選挙後の北京のショック (Beijing Shocked After Hong Kong Elections)
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And Beijing is shocked and humiliated by the results.

Hong Kong has been engulfed in protests for nearly six months now.

People are upset about the Chinese Communist Party

for increasingly interfering in their city,

They're also upset about the police tear gassing people.

More recently, some of the protesters have reacted

by throwing molotov cocktails and setting fires to keep the police from...

Pro-Beijing officials make up the majority of Hong Kong's government.

And for months, they've been demanding that protesters follow the rule of law.

And so on Sunday, Hong Kongers did follow the rule of law—

by voting out hundreds of pro-Beijing officials.

Sunday was Hong Kong's district council elections.

Hong Kong saw an unprecedented voter turnout of 71%.

It's the largest voter turnout in any Hong Kong election, ever.

Voters lined up around the block at polling stations.

Nobody gets this excited about local elections…

And even more shocking, Pan-Democrat candidates—

For comparison, in the 2015 district council election,

in 17 out of 18 district councils in Hong Kong.

And Hong Kongers were out on the streets celebrating.

You know what Dom Pérignon tastes like in a paper cup?

For months, pro-Beijing newspapers in Hong Kong and China

supported the police cracking down on protesters,

and that those people “are representing the silent majority.”

Chinese state-run media had called for Hong Kong's

“silent majority” to not stay silent.

The “silent majority” *didn't* stay silent.

They were just wrong about what the silent majority had to say.

Now, these newly elected Hong Kong district council members

won't get to decide a lot of big picture things in Hong Kong.

like where to put traffic lights and garbage cans.

Next year's elections for the Legislative Council will be more meaningful,

since those legislators get to pass laws.

But these local District Councils do get to choose

who vote for the next Hong Kong chief executive.

Even though that system is rigged, so it can ultimately be controlled by Beijing.

Nonetheless, Sunday's District Council election results are huge.

They're indisputable proof that the majority of Hong Kong

voters are unhappy with how the government

and police have been handling the protests.

understands that voters are upset with the government.

“We were aware of the large number of voters

perhaps not only to select a preferred candidate

but also to express a view on many issues in society, including,

including unhappiness with the time taken

to deal with the current unstable environment.”

They're not unhappy that you haven't dealt with the protesters!

They're unhappy that your government has refused to listen to the protesters,

and instead allowed the police to do the whole thing with the tear gas,

because your handling of the Extradition Bill

Anyway, the election results were not just a shock

According to Foreign Policy editor James Palmer,

“Beijing genuinely thought they were going to win big in the elections...

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