HONG KONG (The Straits Times/ANN): The writing was on the wall for sweeping changes to Hong Kong’s electoral system, with Beijing moving to tighten legal loopholes before the next chief executive race in 2022 to ensure only patriots govern the territory.
Political watchers said that the clearest sign came on Monday (Feb 22) when the senior Beijing official handling Hong Kong and Macau affairs laid the ground rules for who can be office holders, weeks after reforms to the system were raised.
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