March 26, 2017 12:38 PM

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Hong Kong elects Carrie Lam as next leader

Former senior Hong Kong government official Carrie Lam was today elected the city's next leader by a 1,200 member election committee stacked with Beijing loyalists. <br/><br/>Most of Hong Kong's 7.3 million voters have no say in the choice of leader in the former British colony, at a time when tensions with Beijing have been on the rise. <br/><br/>Hong Kong is semi-autonomous and has been governed under a one country, two systems deal since it was handed back to China by Britain in 1997.

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