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Hong Kong's next leader to be endorsed by pro-Beijing elites
Hong Kong's leader-in-waiting, John Lee, is expected to be endorsed for the city's top job today by a committee stacked with pro-Beijing loyalists, as the financial hub attempts to relaunch itself after years of political upheaval.
Some 1,500 members of a pro-Beijing election committee will cast their votes for Lee, the sole candidate, this morning at a harbourfront convention centre, with a simple majority required to anoint him as Hong Kong's next leader.
Few of the city's 7.4 million people have...
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