FILE PHOTO: Pro-democracy student leader Joshua Wong, 20, poses near his home in Hong Kong, China March 31, 2017. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/File Photo
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - When the British handed over Hong Kong to China in 1997, Beijing promised to allow universal suffrage as an "ultimate aim", along with other freedoms, under a "one country, two systems" arrangement agreed with London.
That's not going to happen, well placed sources in Beijing and Hong Kong say, as Hong Kong marks the 20th anniversary of that handover.
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