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BEIJING – Six thousand policemen lined up to guarantee public order and just 4,889 with the right to vote, that is 0.06% of the population. Hong Kong today goes to the polls – so to speak – to choose the Electoral Committee, increasingly loyal to the Party. A technical election, let’s call it – the general ones will take place in three months, in December – but which is the first real plastic representation of Beijing’s long hand on the former British colony to ensure that only the “patriots” and nip in the bud those “anti-Chinese elements” that disturb the Communist leadership.
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