Hong Kong elections

Sunday’s Legislative Council polls are a test of the resistance of pro-democracy Hong Kongers.

Changes to Hong Kong’s election system, as well as the overarching national security law, have all but killed any formal political opposition.

Hong Kong officially enacted the electoral changes suggested by Beijing back in March.

The most significant government reforms since the city’s handover in 1997 consolidate Beijing's control over Hong Kong's government.

Under the newly revamped electoral system, only 20 of the Legislative Council’s 90 seats will be directly elected.

Parsing the motivations, and implications, of Beijing's plan to overhaul Hong Kong's electoral and legislative structures.

The changes, billed as necessary “improvements,” will make it effectively impossible for pro-democrats to win office.

This year's big tasks are finalizing the 14th Five-Year Plan and remaking Hong Kong's electoral system.

Beijing may explore allowing a limited, managed style of democracy – one that ensures a toothless opposition, in the style of Putin’s Russia.

Carrie Lam’s public health postponement of the polls must be exposed for the cynical farce that it is.

The huge triumph of the pro-democracy bloc in the District Council election will not bring democracy to Hong Kong immediately.