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HONG KONG: Hong Kong's political elite began selecting a powerful committee on Sunday, which will choose the city's next leader and nearly half the legislature under a new "patriots only" system imposed by Beijing.
The financial hub has never been a democracy - the source of years of protests - but a small and vocal opposition was tolerated after the city's 1997 handover to authoritarian China.
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