Anson Chan Says U.K. Silence on Hong Kong Conspicuous
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Anson Chan, the highest-ranking civil servant under the last British governor of Hong Kong, said some Hong Kong people view the U.K. as having failed to speak out over China’s handling of its former colony.
At least 500,000 people marked the anniversary of the handover yesterday by marching through Hong Kong to protest China’s insistence that it vet candidates for the chief executive election in 2017, and three weeks after it released a white paper that ratcheted tensions with its assertion that the city’s right to autonomy wasn’t inherent.