China ruled yesterday that Hong Kong's new leader should serve two years instead of five, a decision pro-democracy groups said chips away at the territory's legal system.
Legislators and local legal experts wanted Hong Kong's courts to have a chance to settle the term-limit controversy in the former British colony, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
But the ruling was made in Beijing by the Chinese National People's Congress Standing Committee. The panel has the power to resolve constitutional disputes in Hong Kong, which is supposed to enjoy a wide degree of autonomy under a "one country, two systems" formula.
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