The authorities in Beijing ordered on Wednesday that the next chief executive of Hong Kong serve only the remainder of the term of the previous chief executive, a ruling that critics of mainland policies toward the territory described as a further erosion of Hong Kong’s autonomy.
The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s Communist Party-controlled legislature, issued a legally binding interpretation of Hong Kong’s Basic Law, its miniconstitution. The interpretation will limit the chief executive to be selected this summer to the two years remaining in the second term of Tung Chee-hwa, who resigned on March 12.
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