Well That's All Cleared Up Then

I'm sure people will all go home now and stop all their carping:

HONG KONG (AFP) - Beijing could hint at the possibility of granting full democracy to Hong Kong by 2017, a newspaper report said Wednesday, after tens of thousands of people demanded universal suffrage at a weekend rally.

You know what's funny? In the world of Chinese politics, this probably counts as progress. See, sometime soon a leader might talk about democracy! In 12 years! Whoo! We're partying now!

Still, it's interesting to consider that HKers still have a lot more civil rights than mainlanders. I wonder how that goes over with mainland Chinese.

And I wonder how they came up with the year 2017?