Giles makes an apt comment on the meaning of Spain's bombings for Hong Kong. Being on blogsplat meants the link in tenuous, so I reproduce it in full:

Without getting into a turgid debate on which way the Spaniards should have voted, clearly the weekend's result in Spain, and the promise from the Prime Minister-elect to withdraw their troops from Iraq could easily make terrorists think they can now control elections with strategic bombing. Fortunately here in HK we don't have to worry about the tedium of elections, and judging by the rhetoric from Beijing are unlikely to ever have to. This should mean we are unlikely to be attacked.

Perhaps the pro-Beijing camp should use this as an argument against universal suffrage - it certainly makes more sense than the rubbish they've come out with so far.