Hong Kong legislature now an ‘echo chamber’, four years after shake-up

HONG KONG: On their last day at work, Hong Kong’s lawmakers – the first batch chosen under Beijing’s mantra of “patriots administering Hong Kong” – posed for group pictures, celebrating a job well done after four years of opposition-free politics. But despite their smiles, around a third of them will not seek another term in December’s election, with the self-described non-establishment figure Tik Chi-yuen being among those bowing out. “It used to be that (the legislature) had the benefit of free expression... Now it is more uniform.

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