Hong Kong Leader Rejects Foreign Help for 2017 Election Reform

Hong Kong doesn’t need assistance from British or other foreign governments to bring in universal suffrage to elect its next leader, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying told reporters in the city yesterday.

Leung was responding to comments by Hugo Swire, a minister in the U.K.’s Foreign Office, which were published in the South China Morning Post’s opinion page Sept. 14. Swire wrote that his country offers its support, and that it is important that the city’s people have a “genuine choice.”