and, in the "No Democracy Please, We're Chinese" department

[winterbadger]

"If too many legislators advocate democracy, I don't think it would be good for Hong Kong's business environment," said Dorothy Chow, 30, an office clerk who said she voted for a slate of candidates from the largest pro-Beijing party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong.

from the Post

I'm sure they must have a People's Assembly for Empowering the Environment that fights against clean air and water standards and a Workers' Health and Safety Cooperative Movement that ensures that businesses don't have to actually pay to protect their workers from their manufacturing processes or give them health- or child care.

Comments

[kevinrtaylor.livejournal.com]

Not knowing how it translates into Chinese, I'm wondering how many saw "Democratic Alliance" and voted for that party thinking that they were voting pro-democracy.
Similar things have happened here, with candidates from minor parties grabbing a disproportionate share of the vote by inventing party names containing the name of one of the major parties as an adjective.
I don't remember details, but imagine for instance a far left wing candidate standing as a "People's Republican".