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Beijing Loses Patience with Hong Kong’s Leung

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Albert
Dec 11, 2016
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New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key surprisingly quit last week while he was ahead. Hong Kong’s Chief executive CY Leung has surprisingly quit as well, but he was hardly a success. His Beijing bosses evidently decided that he was too much of a liability and the political cost of pushing to win a second term would be too high.

So Leung has taken the fam…

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