Chinese Official Signals Changes to Hong Kong Election Rules
- Beijing wants Hong Kong ‘firmly controlled by patriots’: Xia
- Move expected during meeting of China legislature next month
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China faces a “critical and urgent” task to overhaul Hong Kong’s electoral system, Beijing’s top official for the city said, in the latest sign that authorities were mulling major changes in the coming weeks.
Beijing needed to reform the city’s electoral system “to ensure that Hong Kong’s governance is firmly controlled by patriots,” Xia Baolong, director of China’s cabinet-level Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, said in a speech Monday.