Hong Kong’s electoral shake-up: making sense of the political tectonic shift of the past 10 days through 10 questions

Beijing’s sweeping changes to Hong Kong’s electoral system were so fast and furious that many across the political spectrum were caught by surprise.Ten days into the approval of the changes by China’s top legislature on March 11, Beijing officials completed consultative sessions with more than 1,000 individuals in the city, they said, and the pro-establishment bloc floated various proposals in the hope of fine tuning how rules of three upcoming elections would be rewritten.Ahead of the upcoming…Read More