China Says Changes Coming to Hong Kong Charter

A Chinese official says Beijing is considering changes to Hong Kong’s mini-constitution after imposing a series of moves tightening its control on the semi-autonomous city. Zhang Xiaoming, a deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, said Tuesday during a seminar in Hong Kong that the goal was “to see the Basic Law as something that is alive” in order to make it open to interpretation. Hong Kong’s Basic Law was enacted after control of the financial hub was returned to China from British colonial rule in 1997, guided by the concept of “one country, two systems” that…