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Beijing to Hong Kong: Drop Dead

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John Berthelsen
Sep 01, 2014
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As expected, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee in Beijing on Sunday ratified a plan for Hong Kong’s 2017 chief executive election that a majority of Hong Kong’s 7.5 million people do not want, despite a bogus plebiscite conducted last month by pro-Beijing sympathizers that said otherwise.

Beijing’s plan for the territory clearly reneges o…

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