FILE PHOTO: Pro-democracy protesters carrying yellow umbrellas, symbol of the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement, stage a three-minute silence outside government headquarters in Hong Kong to mark the second anniversary of the movement, China September 28, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The legal chief of Beijing's representative office in Hong Kong said on Saturday growing calls for independence could make the territory's current "one country, two systems" constitutional framework unsustainable.
Chinese leaders are increasingly concerned about a fledgling independence or secessionist movement in the former British colony of Hong Kong, which returned to mainland rule in 1997 amid promises of wide-ranging autonomy including judicial independence under the formula of "one country, two systems".
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