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Cartoons created between 1/4/2004 and 30/4/2004.

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Date:
  1/4/2004
Title:
  Accountability Bore
Description:
  Shen Zhen is excited about his new accountability system but Tung Chee Hwa of Hong Kong knows better.
 
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Date:
  2/4/2004
Title:
  Slaughter Shocker
Description:
  The Avian Flu Report recommends central slaughtering of chickens not democrats. Tung Chee Hwa must have got the wrong end of the stick.
 
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Date:
  4/4/2004
Title:
  Dynamite Democracy
Description:
  Looks like China might blow up the bridge to democracy and Hong Kong is not happy.
 
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Date:
  5/4/2004
Title:
  Flaming Mess
Description:
  Uncle Sam is having a hard time putting out the flames of Iraq especially as he keeps oiling them. The same goes for Israel in Gaza.
 
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Date:
  6/4/2004
Title:
  Revolutionary Reinterpretation
Description:
  Hong Kong and Liberty are dunces in the Basic Law Revolution.
 
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Date:
  7/4/2004
Title:
  Silent Majority
Description:
  China is enquiring about Hong Kong`s point of view. Since the people are gagged, Tung Chee Hwa has the answer.
 
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Date:
  8/4/2004
Title:
  Olive Branch with Chinese Characteristics
Description:
  China`s idea of an olive branch is not exactly what Liberty and Hong Kong had in mind!
 
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Date:
  9/4/2004
Title:
  An American Diversion
Description:
  The Iraq Sunni and Shi`ite extremists want to fight only Uncle Sam`s legs are in the way for the time being. Still, George. W. Bush is happy as long as attention is diverted from his handling of 9/11.
 
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Date:
  9/4/2004
Title:
  Guess Who`s Coming For Dinner
Description:
  Uncle Sam is in the Iraq cooking pot but he`s staying the course.
 
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Date:
  11/4/2004
Title:
  One Country, Two to Go!
Description:
  China has snapped the Hope for Democracy leg off Hong Kong`s stool. Now there`s The Rule of Law and the Freedom of Speech legs to go.
 
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Date:
  12/4/2004
Title:
  Fishy Business
Description:
  China is taking the democracy fish away from the Hong Kong cat and offering the CEPA carrot, the mainland tourist carrot and the Shen Zhen mid-cap board carrot.
 
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Date:
  13/4/2004
Title:
  Out of the Fire
Description:
  Hong Kong has problems but nothing like poor old Sudan, Palestine, Burma, Haiti, Irag, North Korea for example.
 
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Date:
  14/4/2004
Title:
  Getting Back to the Point
Description:
  Uncle Sam is keen to send arms to Taiwan but China knows the nuclear North Korea issue may be painful enough to make him reconsider.
 
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Date:
  15/4/2004
Title:
  One Step at a Time
Description:
  Tung Chee Hwa drags Hong Kong backwards step by step.
 
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Date:
  16/4/2004
Title:
  How The Great Are Fallen
Description:
  The Great Uncle Sam is in danger of being toppled by George. W. Bush.
 
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Date:
  16/4/2004
Title:
  Ghastly Glossary
Description:
  Dialogue, interpretation and timetable mean different things to Tung Chee Hwa than they do to Hong Kong.
 
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Date:
  18/4/2004
Title:
  Mules of Our Time
Description:
  Mules will be used to transport materials for the construction of the new cable car to the buddha on Lantau. The Tung Chee Hwa mule stubbornly refuses to go up to democracy in Hong Kong.
 
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Date:
  19/4/2004
Title:
  Denial Duo
Description:
  Hu Jintao of China points out Tiananmen to visiting Kim Jong Il of North Korea.
 
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Date:
  20/4/2004
Title:
  Democraholics Anonymous
Description:
  Martin Lee is having a hard time following Tung Chee Hwa`s 9 point plan to cure us all of our democratic ills.
 
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Date:
  21/4/2004
Title:
  A Reinterpretation Fest!
Description:
  Just when Tung Chee Hwa thinks things cannot get worse, in comes Mike Rowse with another hair-brained scheme!
 
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Date:
  22/4/2004
Title:
  A Red Submarine, A Red Submarine
Description:
  The Chinese navy is making a friendship visit but the China submarine is taking the Hong Kong star ferry in the opposite direction to where it wants to go.
 
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Date:
  23/4/2004
Title:
  Gone Fishin`
Description:
  Uncle Sam is having enough trouble with the Iraq fish that he caught. Iran and North Korea are considerably more fishy propositions.
 
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Date:
  23/4/2004
Title:
  Hanoi John? Fallujah George...
Description:
  Are George. W. Bush`s cronies really in a position to mock John Kerry`s past objection to the Vietnam war?
 
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Date:
  25/4/2004
Title:
  Not Another Outbreak!
Description:
  Delegates at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, are more worried about democracy than SARS.
 
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Date:
  26/4/2004
Title:
  Down But Not Out
Description:
  The China National People`s Congress has given democracy a good kicking but the flame is still alight.
 
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Date:
  27/4/2004
Title:
  Domestic Query
Description:
  Philippine domestic helpers can run for congress but Hong Kong employers cannot even vote for their chief executive.
 
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Date:
  28/4/2004
Title:
  Nomination Menagerie
Description:
  The top candidates for next Hong Kong chief executive are the poodle, the sheep and the toad. Tough choice!
 
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Date:
  29/4/2004
Title:
  Balloonatic Panda
Description:
  Wen Jiabao is trying to bring China to heel but the ballooning economy is too much to resist.
 
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Date:
  30/4/2004
Title:
  Oh No You Don`t!
Description:
  China is having none of Hong Kong`s race to democracy.
 
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Date:
  30/4/2004
Title:
  Mayday! Mayday!
Description:
  The Chinese Navy has come to visit Hong Kong and been reclaimed along with the harbour.
 
 

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