Pro-Beijing committee to elect some Hong Kong legislators

A TV screen broadcasts the news of the opening session of China's National People's Congress (NPC), in Hong Kong, Friday, March 5, 2021. A senior Chinese official says the largely pro-Beijing committee that currently elects the Hong Kong's leader will also elect some members of the city's legislature, as part of Beijing's planned revamp of Hong Kong's electoral system. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

If Beijing overhauls the Hong Kong electoral system, Hong Kong election may likely be deferred for a second year. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

On Thursday, Wang Yang, the head of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, said 'patriots' who show undivided loyalty to the ruling communist party should be allowed to hold elected office in Hong Kong, during China's annual legislative advisory body session in Beijing. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

China's decision came when most of the pro-democracy politicians and activists are either in jail or in exile after the authorities cracked down on anti-government protests in 2019, which resulted in the imposing of the stringent national security law. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Hong Kong activist Ben Chung Kam-lun, one of the 47 pro-democracy activists is escorted by Correctional Services officers to a prison van to change to another prison cell in Hong Kong, Friday, March 5, 2021. A Hong Kong court on Thursday ordered all 47 pro-democracy activists, charged under a Beijing-imposed national security law, to be kept in custody after the Department of Justice appealed an initial decision to grant 15 of them bail. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Supporters of one of the 47 pro-democracy activists react outside a court in Hong Kong Thursday, March 4, 2021. A Hong Kong court on Thursday remanded all 47 pro-democracy activists charged under a Beijing-imposed national security law in custody, ending a four-day marathon court hearing. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)