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hong kong. holder is a senior fellow at the university of nottingham research institute china's attempts at moving away from colonial laws this time backfired certainly i think what has happened over the past decade or so is that the chinese coast party has really played a long game they knew that they couldn't change the system overnight and so they have engaged in what would have what i would call like selective decolonization so they changed the education system tried to push back the mostly christian groups that were running the curriculum they've also crippled in a way the legislative council which is the parliament of hong kong but. perhaps the unintended consequence of this process of the colonization is that the political institutions really don't work anymore and they don't produce leadership and so for example very lamb she used to be a civil servant she was elected by the probating establishment so she was never stress tested in an election she never had to argue her case and that leads to these kind of big errors in judgment that have these rather drastic consequences sudan's former pr

hong kong. we spoke to address fold a little bit earlier who is a senior fellow at the university of nottingham asia research institute and he told us china's policy to erode colonial laws over time may have backfired this time certainly i think what has happened over the past decade or so is that the chinese coast party has really played a long game they knew that they couldn't change the system overnight so they have engaged in what would what i would call like selective decolonization so they changed the education system tried to push back the mostly christian groups that were running the curriculum they've also crippled in a way the legislative council which is the parliament of hong kong but. perhaps the unintended consequence of this process of decolonization is that the political institutions really don't work anymore and they don't produce leadership and so for example she used to be a civil servant she was selected by the probating establishment so she was never stress tested in an election she never had to argue her case and that leads to these kind of big errors in judgment that have these rather drastic co

she's now promising rob mcbride al jazeera hong kong some analysis now from address fulda who's a senior fellow at the university of nottingham asia research institute he says china's policy to erode colonial laws over time may have backfired this time certainly i think what has happened over the past decade or so is that the transference party has really played a long game they knew that they couldn't change the system overnight so they have engaged in what would what i would call like selective decolonization so they changed the education system tried to push back the mostly christian groups that were running the curriculum they've also crippled in a way the legislative council which is the parliament of hong kong but. perhaps the unintended consequence of this process of decolonization is that the political institutions really don't work anymore and they don't produce leadership and so for example she used to be a civil servant she was selected by the probating establishment so she was never stress tested in an election she never had to argue her case and that leads to these kind of big errors in judgment that have these rather drastic consequenc