Chinese threat
China threatened yesterday to throw out all three tiers of Hong Kong's elected government when it takes over the British colony in 1997, Reuter reports from Peking.
The threat by the cabinet's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office to sack elected district board and municipal council members widened a previous pledge to unseat elected members of the Legislative Council after the transition.
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