As a pro-West, anti-communist and anti-China, highly conceited, and elitist party, the Civic Party took the wrong path from the beginning, Lau Siu-kai, a consultant from the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macao Studies who is also a senior policy advisor, told the Global Times on Sunday.
Radical forces increasingly hijacked it and gradually turned it against the central government and local residents in Hong Kong. They misjudged the situation and believed that the central government would yield to the opposition as well as pressure from the US and the West, thus pushing themselves into a dead end, Lau said.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 