If China wants Hong Kong residents to stop taking to the streets in protest, it should start picking better leaders.
Of course, that's exactly why an estimated 300,000 demonstrated yesterday and almost 800,000 voted in a recent unofficial referendum: to gain the right to choose the city's chief executive officer. China won't let them and is noncommittal about when, or if, that might happen. Not surprisingly, anger about China's meddling, surging property prices, pollution and income disparities are coalescing around Beijing's handpicked CEO.
