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China’s national legislature has approved a resolution to overhaul Hong Kong’s current electoral system, in a move seen as part of a broader campaign to quell opposition voices.
Top Beijing officials have insisted electoral reforms are needed to ensure that only “patriots” govern the former British colony, improving national security and establishing a “democratic electoral system with Hong Kong characteristics.”
The latest move further tightens China’s control over Hong Kong, reducing democratic representation and creating a pro-Beijing panel to screen candidates for “patriotic” fitness for public office.
Thursday’s nearly unanimous vote to pass the reforms, greenlighting the biggest political shake-up in Hong Kong since the city’s 1997 return to China from British control, was largely expected from the National People’s Congress (NPC), the Communist Party of China’s (CPC’s) rubber-stamp legislative body.
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A Chinese official hit back Friday at U.S. criticism of planned election law changes in Hong Kong, noting the chaos surrounding the recent American presidential election.
Semi-autonomous Hong Kong is an internal Chinese issue that no foreign country has the right to interfere in, said Zhang Xiaoming, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council. I don’t know that after the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, how the U.S. has such moral capital to point fingers at the election institutions of Hong Kong, he said.
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