{"id":45857,"date":"2015-03-08T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=45857 "},"modified":"2015-03-08T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T21:43:00","slug":"45857-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=45857","title":{"rendered":"China Not Backing Down From Hong Kong Election Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China’s parliament chief Zhang Dejiang delivers a work report during the second plenary session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 8, 2015.<\/div>
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BEIJING—China’s parliament chief said on Sunday a ruling last year on screening candidates who want to run for election as Hong Kong’s top official in 2017 was the correct one, signaling no backing down on a decision that sparked protests in the city.<\/div>
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China has ruled the former British colony since 1997 through a “one country, two systems” formula which allows wide-ranging autonomy and freedoms not enjoyed on the mainland and specifies universal suffrage as an eventual goal.<\/div>
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But the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s largely rubber-stamp legislature, said in August it would screen candidates who want to run in the city’s election for a chief executive in 2017, which democracy activists said rendered the notion of universal suffrage meaningless.<\/div>
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That ruling lead to weeks of at times violent protests in Hong Kong last year. Beijing has said repeatedly there is no room for negotiation.<\/div>
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Zhang Dejiang, who heads parliament and is also the ruling Communist Party’s third-ranked leader, told legislators that the decision was the right one.<\/div>
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“Having universal suffrage to elect the chief executive is a major issue for the political development of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,” Zhang told the assembly.<\/div>
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The NPC has the right under the constitution and the law to make the “necessary” decisions about how to promote this development, he added.<\/div>
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“This has important meaning for fully effecting ‘one country, two systems,’ ‘Hong Kong people ruling themselves,’ the policy of a high degree of autonomy … and promoting the gradual development of democracy and the smooth carrying out of the 2017 chief executive election by universal suffrage,” Zhang said, without elaborating.<\/div>
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Last week, Zhang told Hong Kong delegates to parliament that advocates of Hong Kong independence were “crossing a line.”<\/div>
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Anger in Hong Kong has widened to include long-standing frustrations with mainland tourists crowding into shopping centers, sparking protests in malls across Hong Kong on most weekends.<\/div>
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