There are many proposals on the table. Mine mine is not the only one. Simon and other people have proposed many things. I think the bottom line for Beijing is that it must conform to the August 31 proposal. The main thing is that they will not give up their deletion capability. It is not in the minds of the so-called western minority, the democrats. They see it as a sort of universal suffrage, a principle thing. Beijing sees it as a protection of sovereignty. In their mind they cannot accept someone who fights against China's interest becoming the chief executive. To be fair, they always had the power not to appoint; so 50% approval is really giving the dirty work to the nomination committee. You can see it this way. So will the majority in Hong Kong be willing to get that compromise? As Simon said, we're not an independent country. Beijing still has appointment power and unlike the provinces of Canada, where there is no appointment made by the government in Ottawa, there is an appointment process. It has always been in the basic law.
On May 7th, 2015. See this statement in context.