Jasper Tsang Yok-sing campaigns on election day for the Legislative Council in Hong Kong September 9, 2012. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's leaders could re-think Hong Kong's autonomy if tensions in the Asian financial hub reached a level that threatened national security, one of the city's leading pro-Beijing figures has warned.
Jasper Tsang, president of Hong Kong's Legislative Council, told the South China Morning Post that failure to strike a deal over the leadership election in 2017 would deal a blow to confidence in the "one country, two systems" formula under which the city was returned to China in 1997.
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