U.K. Accepting Hong Kong Election Limits ‘Insult,’ Chan Says
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The U.K. government’s acceptance of China’s plan for limiting free elections in its former colony of Hong Kong is a “great insult,” said the city’s former chief secretary.
“The statement will cause more offense in the minds of quite a number of people in Hong Kong than if the FCO has chosen to say nothing at all,” Anson Chan, the second-highest ranking official in the final colonial government, said today in a phone interview. She was referring to a statement yesterday from the U.K.’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in which it said details of electoral reforms are to be decided by the governments of Hong Kong and China.