{"id":199469,"date":"2021-03-11T12:10:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T09:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/chinese-lawmakers-endorse-tighter-control-over-hong-kong\/"},"modified":"2021-03-11T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T09:10:51","slug":"chinese-lawmakers-endorse-tighter-control-over-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chinese-lawmakers-endorse-tighter-control-over-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"#Chinese lawmakers endorse tighter control over Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Chinese lawmakers endorse tighter control over Hong Kong<\/strong>”
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BEIJING \u2014 China\u2019s ceremonial legislature on Thursday endorsed the Communist Party\u2019s latest move to tighten control over Hong Kong by reducing the role of its public in picking the territory\u2019s leaders.<\/p>\n

The measure adds to a crackdown against a protest movement in Hong Kong calling for greater democracy. The crackdown has prompted complaints Beijing is eroding the autonomy promised when Hong Kong was handed to China in 1997 and hurting its status as a global financial center.<\/p>\n

The National People\u2019s Congress voted 2,895-0, with one abstention, to endorse changes that would give a pro-Beijing committee power to app<\/a>oint more of Hong Kong\u2019s lawmakers, reducing the number elected by the public. NPC members, who are appointed by the party, routinely endorse party plans by unanimous vote or overwhelming majorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

President Xi Jinping and other party leaders sat on stage in front of delegates as they cast votes electronically in the cavernous Great Hall of the People. The NPC has no real powers but the party uses its brief annual meeting, the year\u2019s highest-profile political event, to showcase government plans and major decisions.<\/p>\n

Also Thursday, the NPC endorsed the ruling party\u2019s latest five-year development blueprint. It calls for stepping up efforts to transform China into a more self-reliant technology<\/a> creator \u2014 a move that threatens to worsen strains with Washington and Europe over trade and market access.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Under the Hong Kong changes, a 1,500-member Election Committee would pick the territory\u2019s chief executive and an unspecified \u201crelatively large\u201d number of members of its 90-seat legislature.<\/p>\n

Committee members would come from five segments of society including business and political figures. That would give pro-Beijing forces more influence than a popular vote would.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong news<\/a> reports said earlier the Election Committee would pick one-third of legislators.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll representatives highly agreed\u201d to the changes \u201cto safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests and to maintain Hong Kong\u2019s constitutional order,\u201d said the chairman of the NPC\u2019s governing Standing Committee, Li Zhanshu.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The changes will allow Hong Kong to \u201cresolve the problem of the LegCo making everything political in recent years and effectively deal with the reckless moves or internal rift that have torn Hong Kong apart,\u201d the territory\u2019s chief executive, Carrie Lam, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Last year, the party used the NPC session to impose a national security law on Hong Kong in response to the protests that began in 2019. Under that law, 47 former legislators and other pro-democracy figures have been arrested on subversion charges that carry a possible maximum penalty of life in prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Hong Kong people will be disenfranchised\u201d under the latest changes, said Emily Lau, a former Hong Kong legislator.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBeijing wants to exert very tight control,\u201d said Lau, a member of the city\u2019s Democratic Party. \u201cIt\u2019s not democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mainland leaders deny they are eroding Hong Kong\u2019s autonomy and say the changes are necessary to protect the territory\u2019s stability.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Foreign Minister Wang Yi defended the changes in Hong Kong as needed to protect its autonomy and defend its \u201ctransition from chaos to governance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lau, the former Hong Kong legislator, said concerns expressed by some Chinese officials about a possible independence movement or attempt to overthrow the government are overblown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Beijing is worried about is overkill. Hong Kong people are not going to have independence or overthrow the government. No way,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat they should do is engage, listen to the voices of Hong Kong people so we can have a dialogue and reach a consensus on how to move forward, instead of just coming down on us like a ton of bricks,\u201d she said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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